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* AlliterativeTitle: ''News from Nowhere''.
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* ExtyYearsFromNow: {{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.
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* 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.
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* 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.
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* 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.
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''News From Nowhere'' is a utopian novel published in 1890 by Creator/WilliamMorris.
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* 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 decentralised, 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.
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* 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 decentralised, 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.
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''News From Nowhere'' is a utopian novel published in 1890 by Creator/WilliamMorris.
The narrator, William Guest, falls asleep and finds himself in the 21st century, in an idyllic agrarian society created following a socialist revolution.
''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.
!!This novel contains examples of:
* AllJustADream: Ambiguously.
* AlliterativeTitle: ''News from Nowhere''.
* {{Arcadia}}: Morris's vision of a future following a socialist revolution is this.
* AuthorAvatar: The narrator is clearly this.
* AuthorTract: ''News from Nowhere'' is really just a means for Morris to describe his vision of a socialist utopia.
* EarthyBarefootCharacter: Ellen.
* ExtyYearsFromNow: Played with. William Guest travels from 1889 to 2002, so neither the destination year nor the time gap is 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.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: The narrator.
* MeaningfulName: William Guest, who spends most of the novel as a guest in the utopian society.
* 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 decentralised, 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.
* TimeTravel: The framing device, as the narrator falls asleep and wakes up in a utopian socialist future.
* {{Utopia}}: And the title is a nod to the original ambiguous coinage of the word, which could mean either "Good Place" or "No Place".
* TheWatson: The narrator's role in the story is to be shown around and have everything explained to him.
The narrator, William Guest, falls asleep and finds himself in the 21st century, in an idyllic agrarian society created following a socialist revolution.
''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.
!!This novel contains examples of:
* AllJustADream: Ambiguously.
* AlliterativeTitle: ''News from Nowhere''.
* {{Arcadia}}: Morris's vision of a future following a socialist revolution is this.
* AuthorAvatar: The narrator is clearly this.
* AuthorTract: ''News from Nowhere'' is really just a means for Morris to describe his vision of a socialist utopia.
* EarthyBarefootCharacter: Ellen.
* ExtyYearsFromNow: Played with. William Guest travels from 1889 to 2002, so neither the destination year nor the time gap is 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.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: The narrator.
* MeaningfulName: William Guest, who spends most of the novel as a guest in the utopian society.
* 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 decentralised, 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.
* TimeTravel: The framing device, as the narrator falls asleep and wakes up in a utopian socialist future.
* {{Utopia}}: And the title is a nod to the original ambiguous coinage of the word, which could mean either "Good Place" or "No Place".
* TheWatson: The narrator's role in the story is to be shown around and have everything explained to him.
