News from Nowhere or An Epoch of Rest

News From Nowhere describes how a socialist goes to sleep and wakes up many years later (in 2102) to find the revolution has won and the England is now a free collection of villages where people freely work at crafts for the love of it. It is as compelling a dream of the future as novels like 1984 and Brave New World, reminding that nothing about the way we live can be taken for granted - either now or in 1890.