Ursula Le Guin

Oh, dear, think I bored Polly a lot as on the way home from the pub spent a lot of time babbling away about what a wonderful author LeGuin is. I was on the rocks with her after "The Dispossessed" but, looking back, I enjoy it far more with hindsight than at the time of reading. And then there is "The Telling" and Always Coming Home" which are just masterpieces in utopian fiction. Critical utopias are a good place to be in utopian literature at the moment I think :) Finding a medium on which to connect a critique of everyday society within a living breathing utopia, and then still finding time for a reflexive argument on perhaps not just the utopia itself, but the nature of utopia more generally as well, and all encased in a good plot? That, will be something worth reading.
rik