Anna Bowman Dodd 39 min read

Writing home to Norway in the year 2050, a Swedish nobleman describes his arrival in the New York Socialistic City, where one is not landed but 'shot' into the country by pneumatic tube.

Anna Bowman Dodd's 1887 book is a sharp dystopian and satirical anti-socialist utopia. Pointed, witty, prophetic. Read it for a clever period vision of a fully socialist future America, a chilly, over-organized, joyless world, in a skeptical rejoinder to the utopian dreams of its age.

In its time

Published in 1887, during the 1880s, lost races and dying earths.

Reading it

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