Dystopian vs. Utopian Novels

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Dystopian vs. Utopian Novels

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1beatles1964
Bearbeitet: Apr. 18, 2011, 2:18 pm

The more I go through my books at home and categorize them into either Dystopian or Utopian the more Dystopian novels I seem to find over Utopian novels. I was wondering if it's because maybe there's been more Dystopian than Utopian novels written. I know I didn't consciously start trying to buy more Dystopian than Utopian novels it just happened to turn out this way.
I was wondering if anyone else has noticed that they own more Dystopian than Utopian novels in their book collections. Now that I'm constantly going through my book collection and trying to find all the Dystopian & Utopian novels that I own. Of course I may be wrong about there being more Dystopian than Utopian novels that have been written it just seems that way to me since I keep finding more Dystopian than Utopian novels in my book collection.

Beatles1964

2SusieBookworm
Apr. 21, 2011, 7:54 am

Nope, I think there are more dystopian than utopian novels. They're easier to write (it's easier to create a negative world than a perfect one), and there's a wider market for them. Most of the utopian novels (that I know of) were written prior to about 1930 or so (hmmmm, more idealistic times before the World Wars?) and have ideas of the Scientific Revolution/Enlightenment, Romanticism, or Marxism at their root.