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York University's Professor Allan Weiss joins host Oliver Brackenbury for a discussion on the history of utopian and dystopian speculative fiction.

Links to some of the things mentioned in this episode:

• Allan Weiss (http://www.yorku.ca/aweiss/)

• Thomas More's “Utopia”

• Platos “The Republic”

• H.G. Wells “The Time Machine”

• “The Machine Stops” by E. M. Forster

• “Hard Times” by Dickens

• Problem Novels

• “We” by Yevgeny Zamyatin

• “Moon of the Crusted Snow” by Waubgeshig Rice

• Drew Hayden Taylor

• Neal Stephenson's “The Hieroglyph Project”

• MIT Twelve Tomorrows Series

• Nalo Hopkinson

• The Mutopian Manifesto

• “A Modern Utopia” and “The Sleeper Awakes” by H.G. Wells

• “Herland” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

• Protopia

• “Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People” by Mark Shainblum & Andrea D. Lobel