Trivia / Looking Backward

• Follow the Leader: One of the first 19th Century utopian science-fiction novels. It inspired not only copycat novels and spinoffs, but also a slew of Take That! response novels by writers doubting the economics and politics of Bellamy's future. News from Nowhere by William Morris was a response from a fellow socialist, as Morris found it too stiflingly industrial and favored a rural, agrarian setting instead.