3001: The Final Odyssey | Literary Precedents
As the critic Tom Moylan points out in Demand the Impossible: Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination (1986), the notion of an ideal place or society somewhere beyond the known has existed in human traditions since ancient times: the biblical Garden of Eden, the Buddhist Western Paradise, the Norse Valhalla, Plato's Republic, and so on. Western literary tradition took specific focus on the ideal society with Thomas More's Utopia (1517). The late nineteenth century brought H. G. Wells's early science fiction and, from an American perspective, Edward Bellamy's Looking...
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