> The point of science fiction is to create a believable vision of the future It isn't, but even running with that, he did. It was an enormously popular book a

> The point of science fiction is to create a believable vision of the future It isn't, but even running with that, he did. It was an enormously popular book at the time, and fits in with a lot of other utopian socialist visions of that era. I understand that it doesn't fit with your personal ideologies and beliefs more than century later. But you were not his audience. A book with the same goals written today would be written differently. Even good science fiction from decades later doesn't hold up by the standards you're expecting of it. E.g., Bradbury's Martian Chronicles is also shockingly unrealistic to today's reader. But that's nothing on Bradbury or the book.