... reach the same heights. The rediscovery and reassessment of William Morris" News From Nowhere (1890), which set the ecotopian template, inspired Aldous Huxley to revisit his own dystopian template of Brave New World with the novel Island (1962), a marriage of Buddhist philosophy with Western science. This started the trend, but for a long time it remained an isolated example, even though the ecological ... at all. He disdainfully refers to it as "the last refuge of the unimaginative", and expresses a desire for science fiction to become abstract and start exploring a number of high-conc...

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