In his sci-fi novel Lake of Darkness, Adam Roberts got down to write a utopia, a style predating science fiction that imagines a greater or excellent world. “I wished to analyze the logic of utopia itself. Is utopia potential?” he says. Regardless of this, he admits that utopia novels are exhausting: “There will be, by definition, no battle within the excellent realm.” On this interview with New Scientist E book Membership head Alison Flood, Roberts discusses the novel, his quest to know utopia itself and why he may have known as the novel Area Devil as an alternative.
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