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| − | '''Shelonsky, Nikolai Nikolaevich. ''The World in the Future'''''. ''Книга В мире будущего - Шелонский.'' 1892. Rpt. Prestige Beech in the series Retro Library of Adventure and Science Fiction (as rendered in Google translation).[https://knigamir.com/books/misticheskaya-fantastika_ID171/v-mire-budushchego_ID306894/] NAME, translator. PLACE: PUBLISHER, date. Discussed in John J. Pierce manuscript ''Imagination and Evolution: A Conceptual History of Science Fiction'' ch. 2, pp. 16-17. | + | '''Shelonsky, Nikolai Nikolaevich. ''The World in the Future'''''. ''Книга В мире будущего - Шелонский.'' 1892. Rpt. Prestige Beech in the series Retro Library of Adventure and Science Fiction (as rendered in Google translation).[https://knigamir.com/books/misticheskaya-fantastika_ID171/v-mire-budushchego_ID306894/] NAME, translator. PLACE: PUBLISHER, date. Discussed in [[Origins of the Species|John J. Pierce's]] manuscript ''Imagination and Evolution: A Conceptual History of Science Fiction'' ch. 2, pp. 16-17. |
High-tech future world written in reaction to Bellamy's ''[[Looking Backward]]'', rejecting its socialism but enthusiastically accepting "technological progress – including television and anti-gravity devices. Indeed, with abundant solar power and rapid communication, cities have been abandoned and Russians live in self-sufficient family estates in the country." | High-tech future world written in reaction to Bellamy's ''[[Looking Backward]]'', rejecting its socialism but enthusiastically accepting "technological progress – including television and anti-gravity devices. Indeed, with abundant solar power and rapid communication, cities have been abandoned and Russians live in self-sufficient family estates in the country." | ||
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Shelonsky, Nikolai Nikolaevich. The World in the Future. Книга В мире будущего - Шелонский. 1892. Rpt. Prestige Beech in the series Retro Library of Adventure and Science Fiction (as rendered in Google translation).[1] NAME, translator. PLACE: PUBLISHER, date. Discussed in John J. Pierce's manuscript Imagination and Evolution: A Conceptual History of Science Fiction ch. 2, pp. 16-17.
High-tech future world written in reaction to Bellamy's Looking Backward, rejecting its socialism but enthusiastically accepting "technological progress – including television and anti-gravity devices. Indeed, with abundant solar power and rapid communication, cities have been abandoned and Russians live in self-sufficient family estates in the country."
For people living on estates in relative or extreme high-tech isolation, cf. and contrast Asimov's The Naked Sun.[2]
JJPierce, RDE 27Mar18
