... fiction, the social and political institutions of men crumble long before the cities they build do. A utopian vision of the perfect city seems inevitably doomed; the perfect example of this is the myth of Atlantis. In what is probably the earliest example of what we can call science fiction is Plato's description of the lost civilisation of Atlantis. Plato gives us a story of magnificent cities, mythical ... be seen in Anthony Burgess" famous novel A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess, 1962). This was another key dystopian text of the 1960's, although it differed very much from what we c...

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