The Utopia Reader will serve well as an undergraduate textbook and is compact enough to carry in a backpack. For researchers, the excerpts, suggested readings, and editorial insights make this text a valuable launching point. This second edition is well worth adding to any collection, even where the first edition is already in the stacks. -Choice The Utopia Reader ... Read moreis the place to start a literary voyage into new futures, possible futures, and dangerous alternative futures. These well-selected readings let the reader know that there is neither a shared perfect future nor a shared perfect interpretation. Accessible and provocative. -Jean Pfaelzer,author of The Utopian Novel in America: the Politics of a Literary Form How utopian-to see something that was very good get better. This second edition includes an expanded introduction that addresses the complexities of defining utopia, significant additions to several sections, and an entirely new section on the 21st century that includes young adult dystopias and non-print utopias. -Kenneth Roemer,author of Utopian Audiences Show Less