Trouble in Paradise: The Twentieth-Century Utopian Ideal

Fisher, Judith L. "Trouble in Paradise: The Twentieth-Century Utopian Ideal." Extrapolation 24.4 (Winter 1983): 329-39.

Concentrates on C. S. Lewis's "Deep Space Trilogy," I. Asimov's Foundation series, R. A. Heinlein's The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, and Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed (citations under Fiction). Contains some errors, but usefully discusses the possibility of resolving the paradox of "the Machine" (both technology and bureaucratic organization) that allows modern utopias and reduces them to dystopias (see esp. 330).