Ustopia

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"Ustopia is a word I made up by combining utopia and dystopia - the imagined perfect society and the opposite - because, in my view, each contains a latent version of the other... But any writer of ustopias has to answer three necessary questions: where is it, when is it, and - in relation to maps - what shape it is? For unless we readers can believe in the ustopia as a potentially mappable place, we will not suspend our disbelief willingly."

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