Many thanks to NYU Press and Edelweiss for providing me an ARC copy of this book that I freely chose to review. I picked up this book because I was interested in the era, late XVIII and early XIX century, personally and also for research purposes, and although I had read fiction set in the period, I...
Oh hey, proto-scifi utopian whatever! Looking Backward was a blockbuster hit in 1887 - according to Wikipedia "the third-largest bestseller of its time, after Uncle Tom's Cabin and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ." This is mystifying because it's basically a boring socialist tract. "Does it then reall...
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