Series
Islandia
Austin Tappan Wright, Mark Saxton & Basil Davenport · 4 novels · 1 novella · 1 novelette · 1942–1982
Austin Tappan Wright's Islandia is a utopian novel of a fictional isolationist nation, composed over decades as Wright's private avocation and published posthumously in 1942 after editor Mark Saxton trimmed the sprawling manuscript by roughly a third. Saxton later authored sequels expanding Wright's world, including The Islar and The Two Kingdoms.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Islandia at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1940s2
- 1950s0
- 1960s1
- 1970s1
- 1980s2
Shape
4 novels · 1 novella · 1 novelette
3 authors · completed series
reads like:literary & generalpolitical intriguesecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedreflectiveadult
Mood
Bright and calm: 40% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 6%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book5 of 6 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Havoc in Islandiadarkest · calmest
- Islandiabrightest
- The Two Kingdomsmost intense