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I've just been reading Kirinyaga by Mike Resnick, and in it he mentions that the short story that started the book was one he was asked to write by OSC for an anthology called 'Eutopia' (the mis-spelling presumably being deliberate, although it isn't obvious to me what it signifies, unless OSC is now saying that the EU is utopian ). This was about ten years ago, yet as far as I know the anthology has never appeared. Anybody know what happened to it, or whether it is ever going to see the light of day.
The theme of the anthology that OSC set out was for a 'universe' where there were a number of small planetoids which were terraformed and sold off as a 'make your own utopia' type place - with the only rule being that each utopia had to have a place where people were freely allowed to go to leave if they didn't want to stay there. Mike Resnick's story was about an attempt to recreate traditional (pre-European) Kenyan life (and the novel is well worth reading if you ask me).
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"Eutopia", if I understand correctly, is Greek for "good place". It's meant as a deliberate variant on "utopia", which literally means "no place"--there is no real paradisical society on Earth. Discovered this in an anthology of alternate history stories.
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). This was about ten years ago, yet as far as I know the anthology has never appeared. Anybody know what happened to it, or whether it is ever going to see the light of day.
