Henry Olerich ~7 hr read

A vision of a future without cities or nations, where friction and want have finally been engineered out of human life.

Henry Olerich's 1893 utopia opens by cataloguing the marvels of the age, photographed stars, weighed planets, the near-annihilation of time and space by telegraph, before proposing a radically reorganized society beyond city and country alike. Earnest, detailed reform-fiction typical of the utopian boom that followed Bellamy's 'Looking Backward.' Read it for a sincere nineteenth-century blueprint for remaking the whole shape of human settlement.

In its time

Published in 1893, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

~7 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).