News From Gardenia

TitleNews From Gardenia
Year for Search2012
AuthorsLlewellyn, Robert(b. 1956)
Date Published2012
PublisherUnbound
Place PublishedLondon
KeywordsEnglish author, Male author
Annotation

A eutopia inspired by 1890 Morris, News From Nowhere but with an advanced technology not found in Morris. The future world is divided between countries like Gardenia, formerly the U.K., that are called “nonecons” and are Arcadias with technology and those countries like the Brazil, China, India, and the United States of Africa that are successful and wealthy technological economies. There is also an unvisited dystopia, the Midwest, in what used to be the U.S. that is racist and authoritarian. First volume of a trilogy; see also 2013 and 2015 Llewellyn. 

Author Note

(b. 1956)

Full Text

2012 Llewellyn, Robert (b. 1956). News From Gardenia. London: Unbound.

A eutopia inspired by 1890 Morris, News From Nowhere but with an advanced technology not found in Morris. The future world is divided between countries like Gardenia, formerly the U.K., that are called “nonecons” and are Arcadias with technology and those countries like the Brazil, China, India, and the United States of Africa that are successful and wealthy technological economies. There is also an unvisited dystopia, the Midwest, in what used to be the U.S. that is racist and authoritarian. First volume of a trilogy; see also 2013 and 2015 Llewellyn. The author is best known as an actor.