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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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