"Go Tell the Phoenicians"

2006 Hughes, Matthew (b. 1949). “Go Tell the Phoenicians.” Tesseracts Ten: A Celebration of New Canadian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Robert Charles Wilson and Edo van Belkom (Calgary, AB, Canada: Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2006), 157-81.

Eutopia briefly described as part of a story about the difficulties of understanding an alien society. People in the alien society mature quickly without any adolescence, which only occurs at the end of life, which is a period of complete physical indulgence. The children have a scientifically advanced, equitable, and egalitarian society. The alien society is contrasted with the bureaucratic organizations of Earth. The Canadian author (b. 1949) was born in England and brought to Canada at when five years old.