- Utopias, Utopies, Utopian fiction, Fiction
This fictional outline of a modern utopia has been a center of controversy ever since its publication in 1948. Set in the United States, it pictures a society in which human problems are solved by a scientific technology of human conduct.
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Grave, contemplative, cool and earnest.
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- B. F. Skinner
- First published
- April 1984
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- MacMillan Publishing Co, Zhang lao shi chu ban she, Macmillan Pub Co
- Editions
- 29
- Language
- Chinese, English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780024115119
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