The 1974 movie Zardoz, depicted a civilization structured according to L. Frank Baum's "The Wizard of Oz". What other novel could you build a civilization on? How would that civilization be better or worse than our own?
By 'novel' I mean a fictional book. This would exclude sacred texts (The Bible, The Qur'an, The Tanakh, The Veda, etc) as well as the writings of classical and modern philosphers.
the talking chair
Favorite Answer
Francis Bacon's novel "The New Atlantis" was designed to have a civilisation built upon it.
Tomasso Campanella's "The City of the Sun" is a fictional dialogue of two people taking about their ideal world.
You can read/print the whole of both books here:
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/bacon/francis/b12n/
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/campanella/tommaso/c18c/
You can read them within one day. They're not long reads.
Anonymous
More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon
Chuck N. Thachikin
dianetics apparently
how would fictional books exclude sacred writings?
yeah take that