Greetings, everyone, and welcome to Founding Utopia.
Utopia is typically defined as an ideal community or society, taken from a book by the same name written by Sir Thomas Moore in 1516. It sometimes carries the additional meaning of an unrealistic ideal which is impossible to achieve in a practical sense. Utopia comes from the Greek, meaning “no place.”
This story follows a Scientist inducted into a secret order of geniuses who develop Science beyond the abilities of the common people. Unbeknownst to either the order or our protagonist, they’re on the cusp of one of the defining moments in their shadow history.
Founding Utopia (FU if you’re nasty) has been planned out, in general terms, to cover a period of roughly five years in the closing days of the Victorian era. Our introduction begins in 1892, and our epilogue will take place in 1898. The meat of the story will be set between 1893 and 1897. So this will probably take a long time to complete.
Cliché, but I hope you enjoy reading the story as much as I enjoy writing it.