OUT NOW:
UTOPIA
by Thomas More
with Ursula K. Le Guin and China Mieville
“We can’t do without this book. We are all and have always been Thomas More’s children.” – China Mieville
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2250-utopia
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Five-hundred-year anniversary edition of More’s Utopia, with writing from major science fiction writers
Five hundred years since its first publication, Thomas More’s Utopia remains astonishingly radical and provocative. More imagines an island nation where thousands live in peace and harmony, men and women are both educated, and property is communal. In a text hovering between fantasy, satire, blueprint and game, More explores the theories and realities behind war, political conflicts, social tensions and redistribution, and imagines the day-to-day lives of a citizenry living free from fear, oppression, violence and suffering.
But there has always been a shadow at the heart of Utopia. If this is a depiction of the perfect state, why, as well as wonder, does it provoke a growing unease?
In this quincentenary edition, published in conjunction with Somerset House, More’s text is introduced by multi-award-winning author China Mieville and accompanied by four essays from Ursula K. Le Guin, today’s most distinguished utopian writer and thinker.
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“We can’t do without this book. We are all and have always been Thomas More’s children.”
– China Mieville
“I am offered the Grand Inquisitor’s choice. Will you choose freedom without happiness, or happiness without freedom? The only answer one can make, I think, is: No.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin
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PAPERBACK: October 2016 / 224 PAGES / ISBN 9781784787608 / $14.95 / £8.99 / $19.50 (CAN)
AVAILABLE AS AN E-BOOK
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