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1. Beginning in the late 1960s and extending into the'70s a rebirth of utopianism has been observable within what we may term" modem Anglo-American SE" As a matter of fact, there had not been a utopian phase in English-language SF since the 1920s, when a name for the genre was coined and its organization into a subculture started. To be sure, utopian fiction as a phoenix form had been an inalienable part of SF in general throughout literary history and had risen to greatest prominence in the Renaissance and at the turn of the 19th century. However, the defeat (or" success") of social revolution at the beginning of the 20th century reversed the latter trend. Disappointed with utopia, impatient intellectual vision-aries turned to dystopian fiction; and taking as its motto Berdyaev's dictum that" utopia is always totalitarian,"'Anglo-American SF (from Huxley to Vonnegut and Bradbury) became a medium for the …