The Challenge of Utopia in Science Fiction

Dystopias are easy. Like humor, Utopias aren’t.

Mernie Buchanan
9 min readMay 21

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Baroque co co #11 by Mernie Buchanan

Utopia is the happily ever after where most stories end because, well, the comfort of living in day to day bliss gets same old… which makes it clear why conflict is a storytelling essential. These 8 authors built ideal future worlds — societies where mutual cooperation evolved (or was forced) to form successful…

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Mernie Buchanan

Mernie paints and writes in Woodstock NY. All images are her original art & photos, with more at www.mernie.com