Albion Beatnik Bookstore, 34 Walton Street, Oxford OX2 6AU
Erewhon (Samuel Butler) • Looking Backward (Edward Bellamy) • 1984 (George Orwell) • Island (Aldous Huxley)
Is utopia confined to fiction, and dystopia the reality we should expect?
More details: Utopia, Dystopia and Mr Smith
Venue website: Albion Beatnik Bookstore
A very enlightening talk. I had not heard of Looking Backward before; it sounds like an interesting novel for socialists, just a shame it was so badly written!