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Michael Robertson is an American author best known for the writing of the “Baker Street Letters” series of novels. Robertson lives in San Clemente, California where he works for a huge American conglomerate with offices across England and the United States. He has always been fascinated by Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes series of novels, which he was reading by the time he was only eight years old. In the 1970s he started watching the Nigel Bruce/Basil Rathbone movies that also influenced his later writing. While he is inspired by Sherlock Holmes, the novels in the “Baker Street Letters” series are not about Sherlock but rather about people who write letters to him. They also do not copy the Conan Doyle style of writing even though a legacy of the Holmes stories definitely does make it into the dialogue and plotting of the novels.

Even as the “Baker Street Letters” are Robertson’s first attempt at novel writing, they are by no means his is first endeavor at writing. Michael is a trained screenwriter with several one act plays to his name. Nonetheless, his first attempt at a full length screenplay also had something to do with letters sent to Sherlock Holmes, though it was in a format very different to his Baker Street novels. He wrote the script in 1982 and managed to pitch it to a few Hollywood producers though he never managed to get anyone interested enough. Making

1Michael Robertson’s book is definitely a good read. In The Last Utopians, Robertson focuses on four writers who between 1825 and 1915 developed an interest in utopian schemes and social experimentation in Great Britain and the United States. Edward Bellamy (1850–1898), William Morris (1834–1896), Edward Carpenter (1844–1929) and Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) were all democratic socialists, believing in an egalitarian alternative to industrial capitalism and in women’s independence; impressed by the rapid and profound alterations industrial development and new technologies were introducing in their social and ecological environment, they responded by devising alternative ways of life in utopian writings, most of the time implementing them in their own lives. This accounts for Robertson’s method which is both biographical and analytical, his concern being to read the lives as well as the texts of these visionaries. At a time when utopian studies are flourishing, the choice Robertson makes is original since he brings together two renowned British figures and two American ones, delineating the specificity of their utopian writings, their distinctive roots in Carlyle’s and Ruskin’s or in Emerson’s and Whitman’s ideas, their gendered perspectives, but also the cross-cultural influences they were submitted to, Charles Fourier’s and Robert Owen’s theories having travelled over the years across the Channel and the Atlantic.

2In the first chapter, ‘Locating Nowhere,’ Robertson traces the genealogy of utopian works from Plato’s Republic to Thomas More’s Utopia andTommaso Campanella’s The City of the Sun, and finally, to Henri de Saint-Simon’s, Charles Fourier’s and Robert Owen’s works. He locates the ‘utopian turn’ in fiction in the late 1880s when Bellamy’s LookingBackward (1888) and many other works of speculative fiction were published that offered visions of egalitarian worlds contrasting with the economic depression both the United Stat