Pag 10

A central concern in the critical utopia is the awareness of the limitations of the utopian
tradition, so that these texts reject utopia as a blueprint while preserving it as a dream.
Furthermore, the novels dwell on the conflict between the originary world and the
utopian society opposed to it so that the process of social change is more directly
articulated. Finally, the novels focus on the continuing presence of difference and
imperfection within the utopian society itself and thus render more recognizable and
dynamic alternatives

Pag 11

Eliminate the principle of performance, the ethic of competition, accumulation and the
ratrace at the level of both individual behaviour and social relations, replacing with
the supremacy of the values of reciprocity, tenderness, spontaneity and love of life in all
its forms.

Pag. 32
As realistic as sicence fiction and utopian fiction may appear on the
surfacem they are forms of the romance which are meditations upon deep
conflicts in the historical presente that are dicplaced onto the terrain of na
other-worldy locus so that the reader, consciously or unconsciously, can see
her or his society and its contradictions in a fresh and perhaps motivating
light

P. 32
Thus utopia can be linked historically with that time of the flowering of
human agency to create its own world, free of subservience to nature or
supernature. (lembra o fato de Crake ter feito o que fez, human agency).

Pag 33
Utopia is the verbal construction of a particular quasi-human community
where sociopolitical and individual relationships are organized according to a
more perfect principle than in the authors community, this construction
being based on estrangement arising out of an alternative historical
hypothesis.
Pag 33
Estrangement, the mechanism of the utopian text whereby it focuses on the
given situation but in a displaced manner to create a fresh view, is identified
as central to the subversive quality of the genre

Pg 33 tirado de Suvin, Metamorphoses of Science Fiction, p. 236:

"Utopia is a formal inversion of significant and salient aspects of the author's
world, an inversion which has as its ultimate purpose the recognition that
the author (and the reader) truly live in an axiologically inverted world."

Pag 33
The estranged world of utopia must appear realistic [...] This textual game
depends on the authors rhetorical ability to create a mode of discourse
which allows her or him to exagerate, to intensify, and extend scientific,
technological, and social conditions to their most extreme point while
convincing the reader that everything which occurs in the fantasy world is
feasible.