"Ustopia is a word I made up by combining utopia and dystopia – the imagined perfect society and the opposite – because, in my view, each contains a latent version of the other... But any writer of ustopias has to answer three necessary questions: where is it, when is it, and – in relation to maps – what shape it is? For unless we readers can believe in the ustopia as a potentially mappable place, we will not suspend our disbelief willingly."
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Utopias and dystopias each contains a latent version of the other
Any writer of ustopias has to answer three necessary questions: where is it, when is it, and what shape it is?
"Ustopia"
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| A perfectly reasonable portmanteau term |
   3 (12.5%) |
| Meh |
| 1 (4.2%) |
| Argh! My eyes, my eyes! |
| 20 (83.3%) |
Context.