New Book Release

A lost masterpiece of dystopian fiction — rediscovered at last, and more relevant than ever.

This Is No Utopia is the electrifying rediscovery of Paul Adam's Les Lettres Malaisie: Roman — a novel that belongs on the shelf beside Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World, and that anticipates both with remarkable precision. Written a full generation before either, it asks the same questions with the same cold clarity: what does a perfect society cost? Who pays? And what happens to the human heart when everything has been rationally arranged?

Part adventure story, part philosophical debate, part love story set at the end of the world, This Is No Utopia follows its narrator deep into a civilisation that has solved every problem except the ones that matter most. He meets Pythia — scientist, sensualist, true believer — and finds himself falling in love in a place where love has been classified as a social disorder.