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SmartMonsters' games are not for everyone. We write for
adults with fairly rich educational and cultural backgrounds.
We assume our players like to read, and know how to type. We don't
write for kids. If this sounds like you, welcome!
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Books About Utopia
A Socialist Utopia in the New South: The Ruskin Colonies in Tennessee and Georgia 1894-1901, Brundage, U of Illinois 1996
A Socialist Utopia in the New South: The Ruskin Colonies in Tennessee and Georgia 1894-1901, Brundage, U of Illinois 1996
Against the Fall of Night, Clarke, none OOP
Is It Utopia Yet?: An Insider's View of Twin Oaks Community in Its Twenty-Sixth Year, Kinkade, Twin Oaks Pub 1994
Life in Amana, anthology, Penfield Press 1998
Oneida: Utopian Community to Modern Corporation, Carden, Syracuse U. Press 1998
Parecon: Life After Capitalism, Michael Albert, Verso 2004
The Abc-Clio World History Companion to Utopian Movements, Webster, Abc-Clio 1998
The City and the Stars, Clarke, Aspect 2001
The Dictionary of Imaginary Places, Manguel et. al., Harvest 2000
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, Le Guin, Harper 1994
The Utopian Alternative: Fourierism in Nineteenth-Century America, Guarneri, Cornell 1995
Utopia in Zion: The Israeli Experience With Worker Cooperatives, Russel, SUNY 1995
Utopian Colleges, Cappel, Peter Lang Publishing 1999
Utopian Episodes: Daily Life in Experimental Colonies Dedicated to Changing the World, Kesten, Syracuse 1996
Visiting Utopian Communities: A Guide to the Shakers, Moravians, and Others, Gutek / Gutek, U. of South Carolina 1998
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"[The] dominant of postmodernist fiction is ontological. That is, postmodernist fiction deploys strategies which engage and foreground questions like ... "Which world is this? What is to be done in it? Which of my selves is to do it?" Other typical postmodernist questions bear either on the ontology of the literary text itself or on the ontology of the world which it projects, for instance: What is a world?; What kinds of worlds are there, how are they constituted, and how do they differ?; What happens when different kinds of worlds are placed in confrontation, or when boundaries between worlds are violated?; What is the mode of existence of a text, and what is the mode of existence of the world (or worlds) it projects?; How is a projected world structured? And so on."
--Brian McHale,
Postmodernist Fiction (info)
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