Explores the genres of utopian and dystopian recent fiction. In this title, essays range in subject matter from Charlotte Perkins Gilman, P D James, Joanna Russ, and Marge Piercy, to Ursula Le Guin, Fay Weldon, and Toni Morrison. It also explores Utopian and dystopian elements in the Nobel-Prize-winning Doris Lessing's Memoirs of a Survivor.