ABSTRACT
It is difficult to resist the conclusion that the writing of 'Utopias' is far more entertaining than reading them. This is probably due to the fact that the planning of a novel of the future gives an author an enhanced sense of power unobtainable from a novel of the present. The present is too full of the past not to limit that pleasant sensation; which is probably why so powerful a creator as Mr. Wells turned more than once to the future for his material.
