The Ambiguous Utopias of Ursula K. Le Guin and Samuel R. Delany
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LeGuin, in The Dispossessed, and Delany, in Triton, explore various social arrangements in the search for happiness through the genre of utopian science fiction novels.
The first half of the 1970s was a heady time for libertarians.