Unutopia

The Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area had received $4 million from the Bureau of Public Roads, with which they had done a transportation study which of course produces a Utopia for automobiles, which is unutopia for human beings.

But the bleakest Utopia of all, the very first of the Unutopias, had come from Wells long before that.

In the following excerpt, Keefer places A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder within the context of Canadian Maritime fiction, focusing on the narrative as an "unutopia" that questions the value of idealistic spiritual and political philosophies.

The unutopia was bizarrely unutopianly a thing, antiutopianly. Disutopianism.