utopias

Phaethon, living in an interplanetary utopian society ten thousand years in the future, embarks on a quest to find his true identity when he learns that parts of his memory were removed and stored by a government Phaethon believed to be totally honorable.

Created as an experiment by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, the Just City is a planned community, populated by over ten thousand children and a few hundred adult teachers from all eras of history, along with some handy robots from the far human future?all set down together on a Mediterranean island in the distant past. The student Simmea, born an Egyptian farmer's daughter sometime between 500 and 1000 A.D, is a brilliant child, eager for knowledge, ready to strive to be her best self. The teacher Maia was once Ethel, a young Victorian lady of much learning and few prospects, who prayed to Pallas Athene in an unguarded moment during a trip to Rome?and, in an instant, found herself in the Just City with grey-eyed Athene standing unmistakably before her.

A dialogue attempting to apply Plato's principles of philosophy to political affairs and discusses his vision of an ideal state.

Shevek, a brilliant physicist, attempts to reunite two planets cut off from each other by centuries of distrust.

In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.

With their floating city utopia threatened by the war on the ground and the greed of two kings, Morgan and the others from Internment must find a way to save the city from falling out of the sky or being obliterated altogether.

After Morgan Stockhour and her friends escape Internment, she discovers that life on the ground is not safer, and that, perhaps, going over the edge has led her to madness.

When a plane lands under mysterious circumstances, four people find themselves involuntary guests in a place unknown and inaccessible to the world.

Presents three annotated works of utopian science fiction--"The Roads Must Roll," "Herland," and "The Republic of the Southern Cross"--and a section of related articles with discussion questions.