Vachel Lindsay 3 hr 44 min read

Cast as the review of a book to appear in 2018, this is an extended vision of Springfield, Illinois, a hundred years hence, the poet's dream of his own hometown transfigured.

Vachel Lindsay's 1920 book is a visionary utopian and social-SF prophecy by the great American poet. Lyrical, idealistic, eccentric. Read it for a poet's strange and heartfelt dream of the future, Springfield, Illinois reborn as a city of beauty and civic glory a century on, from the author of 'The Congo' and 'General William Booth Enters Into Heaven.'

In its time

Published in 1920, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

3 hr 44 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).