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In her essay “Utopiyin, Utopiyang,” Ursula K. Le Guin writes, “Every eutopia contains a dystopia, every dystopia contains a eutopia,” offering us a lens with which to consider these two seemingly opposing genres not as antagonists but as necessary sides of a whole. After all, anytime you read a dystopia, you’re also invited to imagine the negative image implied by its opposite. Like Kim Stanley Robinson, author of The Gold Coast, the November pick of the California Book Club, the five novelists…
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