C. S. Kilby
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In 1516 Thomas More published Utopia, a description of a fictional island in the Atlantic with an ideal society, in order to draw a sharp contrast with the disorderly political situation of his own time. He created the name from topos ("place") and ou, Greek for "no", since he was well aware that nowhere so perfect was likely to exist on earth. People have long dreamed of creating utopian communities; some of them have joined communes, societies where other idealists like themselves have chosen to live in a cooperative way according to certain principles. Not just communes but plans of all kinds have been labeled utopian by critics. But we can dream, can't we?
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Leo Barraclough, Variety, 9 Jan. 2025
Lobo is an alien mercenary and bounty hunter from the utopian planet of Czarnia in the DC comics.
—Brian Welk, IndieWire, 30 Dec. 2024
Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2024
In part because of its Bay Area orientation, the progress movement sometimes gets tagged as sci-fi utopians who are overly focused on frontier technological innovation.
—Bryan Walsh, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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“Utopian.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/utopian. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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