Congratulations to Bill Metcalf for the publication of Brisbane: Utopian Dreams and Dystopian Nightmares (Boolarong Press, 2022). It tells the stories of little-known, peculiar aspects of Brisbane’s colourful and highly contested history. This book reveals eleven authors from the 19th and 20th centuries who wrote about how wonderful, ‘utopian’, Brisbane could become – or how dreadful, ‘dystopian’, it could also become.