Volume 10, Number 5 · March 14, 1968
Games People Play
By Christopher Ricks
The Future as Nightmare: H. G. Wells and the Anti-Utopians
by Mark R. Hillegas
Oxford, 200 pp., $5.75
A Modern Utopia
by H.G. Wells, with Introduction by Mark R. Hillegas
Nebraska, 393 pp., $2.45
Experiment in Autobiography
by H.G. Wells
Lippincott, 718 pp., $8.95
Utopias and anti-Utopias have more than an academic interest. Writing about them in 1959, Richard Gerber pointed out the recurring religious metaphors in 1984, and how 'curiously ambiguous' they made the book. William Empson—who admires ambiguity enough not to think it always a good thing—wrote sharply to the Critical Quarterly:
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