[blimey74]

More wrote his book as a satire, there is no contradiction between his actions in life and his book.

[3pt14159]

Lafferty said that, but has this been confirmed by academics? He was awarded something by the Soviets for Utopia, and I doubt that they'd do that ironically.

[ChoHag]

But they might do it naïvely and then pretend they didn't.