This fascinating intellectual history of imagined paradises takes us from Thomas More to Ursula K Le Guin This fascinating intellectual history of imagined paradises takes us from Thomas More to Ursula K Le Guin B y definition, utopia cannot exist. In 1516, educated readers of Thomas More’s Utopia would have appreciated a tension between two possible derivations of this novel word: the Greek “eu-topos”, meaning good place, and “ou-topos”, meaning not a place at all. It might have been a compact