Cohousing-L Mailing List: Utopian fiction

[Kevin Wolf (kjwolf]

Hi all,
Tree sent me this email which spurred me to do some additional web
research.  I found the following book list and have written the author
about the possibility to adding our list to theirs.  This is a great list
especially of the early literature.
Kevin

http://www.euro.net/mark-space/Utopia/UtopiaFiction.html

At 11:54 AM 12/12/99 -0800, Tree Bressen wrote:
>Hi Kevin,

>Also, i was looking at the Cohousing mailing list archives tonight (i'm not
>on the list, but i take an occasional look) and the utopian novels thread
>caught my eye.  It's my favorite genre--not surprisingly!  In addition to
>what i saw listed there, you can add Joan Slonczewski to your list.  Her
>first book was very weak, but her writing skills have improved some in her
>more recent books.  She's a Quaker biologist who features consensus process
>prominently in her writing, especially in "A Door Into Ocean," less so in
>the sequel, "Daughter of Elysium" i think it was called.  Branching off
>into wimmin's separatist utopias brings one to early works like "Herland"
>(Charlotte Perkins Gilman) and second wave feminist books such as "The
>Wanderground" (Sally Miller Gearhart).
>
>The Society for Utopian Studies may list novels on their web site, i'm not
>sure.  At a minimum, i know there is someone associated with them who
>maintains a list of some kind, might be a specifically feminist list, i
>don't remember anymore but i think it's somewhere in my files.
>
>Cheers,
>--Tree
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