The Ultimate City

'''Ballard, J[ames] G[raham]. "The Ultimate City."' In Low-Flying Aircraft and Other Stories''. St. Albans, UK: Triad/Panther, 1978.

Attempt at "the first scientifically advanced agrarian society," built with "a shot-gun marriage of Arcadia and advanced technology" (14-15). Discussed by A. O. Lewis in "Utopia, Technology, and the Evolution of Society" (q.v. under Literary Criticism); we quote Lewis 165.

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