id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-204 Utopian and dystopian fiction - Wikipedia .html text/html 3884 585 60 Dystopian fiction offers the opposite: the portrayal of a setting that completely disagrees with the author's ethos.[1] Some novels combine both genres, often as a metaphor for the different directions humanity can take depending on its choices, ending up with one of two possible futures. Forster is widely accepted as a 'pioneer of dystopian literature.'[citation needed] M Keith Booker states that "The Machine Stops", We and Brave New World are "the great defining texts of the genre of dystopian fiction, both in [the] vividness of their engagement with real-world social and political issues, and in the scope of their critique of the societies on which they focus."[10] Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is also sometimes linked with both utopian and dystopian literatures, because it shares the general preoccupation with ideas of good and bad societies. Dystopias and Utopias, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-204.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-204.txt