The book was one element in the major wave of utopian and dystopian fiction that marked the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Her PhD is in Brazilian literature, but her early work also focused on utopian and dystopian fiction.

Some authors of utopian fiction wrote about "ideal worlds in which women's positions are better than men's".

As a genre, utopian fiction is a mutant species - a hybrid of the fable and the essay.

She is best known for The Female Man, a novel combining utopian fiction and satire.

With the growing interest in women's utopian fiction in the last few decades, her work has been the object of considerable scholarly attention.

The novel is not only considered science fiction, but also utopian and dystopian fiction.

Mizora is one element in the wave of utopian and dystopian fiction that distinguished the later decades of the nineteenth century.

It is one entrant in the large body of utopian and speculative fiction that characterized the later 19th and early 20th centuries.

Unlike utopian fiction, which often features an outsider to have the world shown to him/her, dystopias seldom feature an outsider as the protagonist.