Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887

The "great American utopian novel" often compared to The Iron Heel (Jack London), The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood), The Dispossessed (Ursula K. LeGuin). Looking Backward created a political movement (Nationalism) and inspired clubs for the discussion of its ideas, the establishment of utopian communities and the publication of many other utopian novels.