Utopian Fantasy as Millennial Motive and Science Fictional Motif

Ketterer, David. "Utopian Fantasy as Millennial Motive and Science Fictional Motif." Studies in the Literary Imagination 6.2 (Fall 1973): 79-103.

Bellamy's Looking Backward as an inadvertent dystopia: "a conveyor-belt vision of hell." See for the ambiguity of technology and, even more, of the social (hyper)organization associated with industrial society: Bellamy's utopian "gigantic mill" appears to DK to resemble William Blake's "dark Satanic Mills."