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'''Souvestre, Émile. ''Le monde tel qu'il sera.'' Paris: W. Coquebert, 1846. ''The World As It Shall Be.''''' Translated from the French by Margaret Clarke. Wesleyan University Press, 2004. | '''Souvestre, Émile. ''Le monde tel qu'il sera.'' Paris: W. Coquebert, 1846. ''The World As It Shall Be.''''' Translated from the French by Margaret Clarke. Wesleyan University Press, 2004. | ||
| − | Cited by John J. Pierce, "Imagination and Evolution, a Conceptual History of Science Fiction," manuscript, 2018, who calls it "a nightmare of Satanic technology," where "Babies are placed in steam-powered crèches resembling henhouses, and fed a formula called supra-lacto-gune; older children are raised under glass like vegetables, and taught a materialist catechism." This world is "is ultra-mechanized but far from safe: deaths and injuries are common in the subways and submarines are attacked by whales. Industry is compartmentalized; each state of the Republic of United Interests produces only one product; people work at only one trade and hardly speak or think of anything else." Workers are "bred for their tasks" (as in the considerably later ''[[Brave New World]]'') and "lead a hellish existence much like that in Fritz Lang’s film ''[[METROPOLIS|Metropolis]]'' (1927)" (Pierce chapter 2, ms p. 14). | + | Cited by [[Origins of the Species|John J. Pierce]], "Imagination and Evolution, a Conceptual History of Science Fiction," manuscript, 2018, who calls it "a nightmare of Satanic technology," where "Babies are placed in steam-powered crèches resembling henhouses, and fed a formula called supra-lacto-gune; older children are raised under glass like vegetables, and taught a materialist catechism." This world is "is ultra-mechanized but far from safe: deaths and injuries are common in the subways and submarines are attacked by whales. Industry is compartmentalized; each state of the Republic of United Interests produces only one product; people work at only one trade and hardly speak or think of anything else." Workers are "bred for their tasks" (as in the considerably later ''[[Brave New World]]'') and "lead a hellish existence much like that in Fritz Lang’s film ''[[METROPOLIS|Metropolis]]'' (1927)" (Pierce chapter 2, ms p. 14). |
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Souvestre, Émile. Le monde tel qu'il sera. Paris: W. Coquebert, 1846. The World As It Shall Be. Translated from the French by Margaret Clarke. Wesleyan University Press, 2004.
Cited by John J. Pierce, "Imagination and Evolution, a Conceptual History of Science Fiction," manuscript, 2018, who calls it "a nightmare of Satanic technology," where "Babies are placed in steam-powered crèches resembling henhouses, and fed a formula called supra-lacto-gune; older children are raised under glass like vegetables, and taught a materialist catechism." This world is "is ultra-mechanized but far from safe: deaths and injuries are common in the subways and submarines are attacked by whales. Industry is compartmentalized; each state of the Republic of United Interests produces only one product; people work at only one trade and hardly speak or think of anything else." Workers are "bred for their tasks" (as in the considerably later Brave New World) and "lead a hellish existence much like that in Fritz Lang’s film Metropolis (1927)" (Pierce chapter 2, ms p. 14).
Pierce, RDE, 27Mar18
