fruit trees, flower beds, vases, statues, and marble seats." Some utopian authors were pro-voked Bellamy's work. British Marxist William Morris pronounced Looking Back- ward "a horrible cockney dreamH-and then proceeded to set down, in News From Nowhere (1890), his own vision of the fu- ture. an arcadian communitv of artisans and 'craftsmen.
Bellamy's age, Collins writes, "was the last in which futuristic novels would take such an optimistic bent." Although the 20th century...