A time of terror: the story of great revenge (A.D., 1910) Plot Summary: The future revolt of London's poor, unemployed, and criminal elements is legal reform. The near-victory of a secret society, the Leaguers of London, over law and order is th…
The new regime: A.D. 2202 The new regime : John Ira Brant’s The New Regime: A.D. 2202 (1909) is a utopian novel envisioning a collectivist society where competition is eliminated, automation replaces labor, and citizens receive free goods through a …
Lord of the World - Robert Hugh Benson Lord of the world Preface: I am perfectly aware that this is a terribly sensational book, and open to innumerable criticisms on that account, as well as on many others. But I did not know how else to express th…
A Crystal Age A Crystal Age Plot: The narrator, "The Smith", tells his story in the first person. A traveler and amateur naturalist, he regains consciousness "under a heap of earth and stones" and believes that he had been knocke…
Famous Utopias being the complete text of Rousseau's social contract; More's Utopia; Bacon's New Atlantis; Campanella's city of the sun; The term Utopia, as generally used, refers to those ideal states which are impossible of realiza…
The revolt of man by Walter Besant, (1896) Utopia Novel Everyone who has written stories knows the unaccountable difference there is between the ease and delight of writing some and the difficulties and troubles which attend to the writing of oth…
Erewhon, or, Over the range Erewhon, as a satire, essay and novel, is interesting and has some thought-provoking ideas. Erewhon: or, Over the Range is a novel by Samuel Butler, first published anonymously in 1872, set in a fictional country discover…
Life in a thousand worlds any person having a reasonable education will admit that there are many planetary worlds besides the one on which we live. But whether or not they are inhabited is an open question with most people. We had been in doubt on …
The great awakening the story of the twenty-second century Plot summary: Adventure in the future, some man wakes up in the 22nd Century. economical utopia when it was once clearly understood that gold and silver are not wealth, but are merely the …
Goslings Published in 1913, Goslings explores what happens when an extraordinary plague that kills mostly men wipes out the population of England. The novel follows a few 'typical' characters from before the plague strikes, through the init…
Humanity and the mysterious knight We are now in a phase of rapid and unprecedented development. The conditions under which we live are changing with ever-increasing rapidity, and, before the end of this century, skyscrapers will rise above the clou…
Despotism: or, The last days of the American republic from the introduction: In May 1856, I was walking leisurely toward the battery. A gentle breeze came from the west — the full moon was directly over my head, and the light was almost the splendo…
The storm of London: a social rhapsody The storm of London Some Positive Reviews: "Clothes,' said Carlyle, 'gave us individuality, distinctions, social polity; Clothes have made men of us; they are threatening to make Clothes-screens …
Posterity, its verdicts and its methods; or, Democracy A.D. 2100 The story is a political utopia, a depressed English man travelling to the year 2100. with a help of an inventor. Excerpt: "In the year of our Lord, 1897, I had some reason to be…
The dogs and the fleas Henry Ward Beecher, in a sermon shortly before his death, said America was going through a period of disgrace. This was true; for there had come to pass, what the prophetic Lincoln had foretold, that, as the result of the war,…
Meccania, the super-state by Owen Gregory Meccania- novel by Owen Gregor A quiet tale of revelation, with a good deal of ironic humour and a few spots of fear, especially for a modern reader who knows how bad things can get very suddenly in such a…
The angel of the revolution: a tale of the coming terror Excerpt: They were strange words to be uttered, as they were, by a pale, haggard, half-starved looking young fellow in a dingy, comfortless room on the top floor of a South London tenement-hou…
Across the zodiac: the story of a wrecked record The frame's "Greg" narrator talks to a CSA officer (Ubernarrator), goes to Mexico to fight for Maximilian and then is shipwrecked in the Pacific. The officer found this manuscript in an …
