Computopia

TitleComputopia
Year for Search1998
AuthorsLovegrove, James [Matthew Henry](b. 1965)
Date Published1998
PublisherOrion Children’s Books and Dolphin Paperbacks
Place PublishedLondon
KeywordsEnglish author, Male author
Annotation

The setting for the novel is a high tech eutopia that has solved the Earth’s environmental problems, but the action of the novel focuses on a man who tries to use the web to gain power. See also 1997 Baxter, Gulliverzone and 1997 Brown, Untouchable. Other, non-utopian volumes in the series include Stephen Bowkett, Dreamcastle (1997), Graham Joyce, Spiderbite (1997), Peter F. Hamilton, Lightstorm (1997), Ken Macleod, Cydonia (1998), Maggie Furey, Sorceress (1998), Stephen Baxter, Webcrash (1998), Maggie Furey, Spindrift (1998), Eric Brown, Walkabout (1999), and Pat Cadigan, Avatar (1999).

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in Web 2028 (London: Millennium, 1999), 219-324. 

Info Notes

Part of a series entitled The Web; see the note at 1997 Baxter.

Holding Institutions

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Author Note

(b. 1965)

Full Text

1998 Lovegrove, James [Matthew Henry] (b. 1965). Computopia. [The Web at the head of the title]. London: Orion Children’s Books and Dolphin Paperbacks. Rpt. in Web 2028 (London: Millennium, 1999), 219-324. Part of a series entitled The Web. NLS

The setting for the novel is a high tech eutopia that has solved the Earth’s environmental problems, but the action of the novel focuses on a man who tries to use the web to gain power. See also 1997 Baxter, Gulliverzone and 1997 Brown, Untouchable. Other, non-utopian volumes in the series include Stephen Bowkett, Dreamcastle (1997), Graham Joyce, Spiderbite (1997), Peter F. Hamilton, Lightstorm (1997), Ken Macleod, Cydonia (1998), Maggie Furey, Sorceress (1998), Stephen Baxter, Webcrash (1998), Maggie Furey, Spindrift (1998), Eric Brown, Walkabout (1999), and Pat Cadigan, Avatar (1999).