Ralph Centennius 38 min read

Written in 1883, a cheerful vision of Canada a century hence: a peaceful, prosperous Dominion crisscrossed by rocket-cars, its old troubles solved by the marvels of a scientific age.

'Ralph Centennius's' 1883 booklet is a brief, optimistic utopian and social-SF forecast of the future Canada. Quaint, hopeful, historically charming. Read it for a delightful period prophecy, a Victorian's rosy dream of a technologically transformed Dominion, rocket-cars and all, glimpsed from a hundred years before.

In its time

Published in 1983, during the 1980s, cyberpunk arrives.

Reading it

38 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).