Brisbane Utopian Dreams and Distopian Nightmares by William MetcalfBrisbane: Utopian Dreams and Dystopian Nightmares tells the stories of little known, and rather peculiar aspects of Brisbanes colourful history. Eleven Brisbane authors from the 19th and 20th centuries wrote about how wonderful, utopian, Brisbane could be or how dreadful, dystopian, it could also be. Some writers imagined a future utopian Brisbane where inequality has been eliminated, where everyone is prosperous, living in the most beautiful city