Edward A. Johnson 1 hr 38 min read

Waking a century in the future, a man discovers an America where the race problem has been solved through the Golden Rule, a hopeful vision of Black progress and reconciliation.

Edward A. Johnson's 1904 novel is a pioneering utopian work by an African American author, imagining a just future through peaceful means. Earnest, historic, forward-looking. Read it for a landmark of early Black speculative fiction, a Bellamy-style utopia dreaming of racial justice.

In its time

Published in 1904, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

1 hr 38 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).