In the World of the Future

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'''Shelonsky, Nikolai Nikolaevich. The World in the Future'''. Книга В мире будущего - Шелонский. 1892. Rpt. Prestige Beech in the series Retro Library of Adventure and Science Fiction (as rendered in Google translation). NAME, translator. PLACE: PUBLISHER, date. Discussed in John J. Pierce manuscript Imagination and Evolution: A Conceptual History of Science Fiction ch. 2, pp. 16-17.

High-tech future world written in reaction to Bellamy's Looking Backward, rejecting its socialism but enthusiastically accepting "technological progress – including television and anti-gravity devices. Indeed, with abundant solar power and rapid communication, cities have been abandoned and Russians live in self-sufficient family estates in the country."

For people living on estates in relative or extreme high-tech isolation, cf. and contrast Asimov's The Naked Sun.

JJPierce, RDE 27Mar18