In New Atlantis, Bacon portrayed a vision of the future of human discovery and knowledge, expressing his aspirations and ideals for humankind. The novel depicts the creation of a utopian land where “generosity and enlightenment, dignity and splendour, piety and public spirit” are the commonly held qualities of the inhabitants of the mythical Bensalem. The plan and organisation of his ideal college, Salomon’s House (or Solomon’s House), envisioned the modern research university in both applied and pure sciences.

This book is a utopia themed book which really surprised me a lot in how bad it is. I tend to like utopia books like The Hunger Games and Ready Player One. So when I got to this book I had some high expectations for this book which it didn’t live up to.

The vision this book has for a future society is very ridiculous. Because the way this book describes a utopian society made me think “I don’t need to be Nostradamus to know that this shit will never happen”. 

The reason why I say this book is ridiculous is because the characters in this book considers the Africans to be the ‘little foul ugly Spirits of Fornication’, the American Indians super ‘savage’ and the Chinese ‘foolish’. As you can notice that book throws into the plot very wide generalizations about people with different ethnicities.

The plot in this book seems very stereotypical and like it was written as orthodox christian propaganda. Which really made me like this book less than I already did.

The writing style in this book is pretty weak. Because it felt like the author of this book didn’t know what he was doing. And even the writing style in this book feels like a pure orthodox christian propaganda. Which I personally hate the most in books when the book turns out to be an religious propaganda book.

However this book had some good moments throughout this book, but those moments were pretty rare. Because most of the time this book felt like reading a torture device in literature form.

I Give This Book 2 / 5