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2	''News from Nowhere'' is a utopian novel published in 1890 by Creator/WilliamMorris.
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4	The narrator, William Guest, falls asleep and finds himself in the 21st century, in an idyllic agrarian society created following a socialist revolution.
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6	''News from Nowhere'' was written as a riposte to Edward Bellamy's ''Literature/LookingBackward'', a similarly structured AuthorTract about a possible socialist future, but one which Morris hated for its utilitarian drabness.
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8	!!This novel contains examples of:
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10	* AlliterativeTitle: ''News from Nowhere''.
11	* AllJustADream: Ambiguously.
12	* {{Arcadia}}: Morris's vision of a future following a socialist revolution is this.
13	* AuthorAvatar: The narrator is clearly this.
14	* AuthorTract: ''News from Nowhere'' is really just a means for Morris to describe his vision of a socialist utopia.
15	* EarthyBarefootCharacter: Ellen.
16	* ExtyYearsFromPublication: {{Played with}}. William Guest travels from 1889 to 2002, so neither the destination year nor the time gap is a round number -- but it's the same time gap used in ''Literature/LookingBackward'', which was written a couple of years earlier and set in the rounded year 2000.
17	* FishOutOfTemporalWater: The narrator.
18	* GrumpyOldMan: Exactly one character is dissatisfied with the utopia: a grumpy old man who is sure that things must have been more interesting in the old days that he's read about, when there was still economic competition.
19	* HandWave: At one point the narrator sees cargo barges driven by an unknown power, which one of the locals describes as "force-barges." The narrator decides to let the matter slide instead of asking how they work.
20	* MeaningfulName: William Guest, who spends most of the novel as a guest in the utopian society.
21	* MrExposition: Most of the characters are this to some extent, but especially Old Hammond, who spends several chapters just sitting and telling Guest about the utopia's history and workings.
22	* SolarPunk: A utopian novel from the late 19th century in which an author-insert character named William Guest travels to the year 2002 to find Britain transformed into a decentralized, egalitarian, and ecological paradise where the government has been turned into a dung market, people administer their communities through participatory democracy, war and poverty are distant memories, and even money no longer exists.
23	* TimeTravel: The framing device, as the narrator falls asleep and wakes up in a utopian socialist future.
24	* {{Utopia}}: And the title is a nod to the original ambiguous coinage of the word, which could mean either "Good Place" or "No Place".

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