by Edward Bellamy
A man falls into a deep trance in 1887 inside a vault under his house. The house burns down, but he is unhurt. No one realizes that he is hidden inside the vault, so he lies there in a state of suspended animation for 113 years, at which point he is discovered and reanimated. What he finds is that s...
A utopian political tract, more interesting for its glimpse into 19th-century radical political idealism than its literary qualities.Although largely forgotten today, 'Looking Backward' was apparently a runaway bestseller at the time of its publication, spawning dozens of social clubs devoted to imp...
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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You are riding on a coach, you don't know what your destination is but the days are long and overcast, the road rough and pitted. None of this is helped by the unwieldiness of the coach itself, an open topped monstrosity of iron and timber with uncounted passengers jostling for the limited seats, th...
This book reads more like an economic manifesto than a work of fiction. A man from the late 1800s falls asleep and wakes up to find that he was in such a deep trance that it's now the year 2000. Nearly the entire book is a discourse on what has changed over the course of the century. Many of the cha...
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