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Brian Attebery
Strategies of Fantasy - Fantasy is a violation of the truth of the real world, using a simple narrative structure to let the reader reflect on theirs
Margaret Atwood
Ustopia is a word I made up by combining utopia and dystopia - the imagined perfect society and its opposite because, in my view, each contains a latent version of the others
Tom Moylan
the utopian impulse is the desire for social reform which can be seen in the protagonist of dystopian novels as well as the reader
Rosemary Jackson
Fantasy: the literature of subversion. Dissolves space and time. Has key themes. Explores the unconscious drive
Ursula Le Guin
to extrapolate imaginatively from current trends and events to a near future that's half prediction, half satire
M. Keith Booker
Familiarisation highlights social issues, dystopia is a nightmare version of the utopian dream, "I wish to underscore the role of dystopian fiction as social criticism"
"by focusing their critiques of society on spatially or temporally distant settings, dystopian fictions provide fresh perspectives on problematic social and political practices"
