@booklet {9959, title = {"City of Refuge"}, howpublished = {The Pall Mall Magazine}, volume = {8 - 10}, year = {1896}, note = {

Rpt. in 3 vols. London: Chatto \& Windus, 1896

}, month = {March - October 1896}, pages = {463-86, 577-98; 115-39, 269-93, 431-54, 606-29; 127-49, 276-98}, abstract = {

Much of the setting of the novel is an intentional community in the United States where a man from England is hiding from his past and the authorities. The community is, as the title suggests, presented, not entirely favorably, as a refuge from the world. The people wear unattractive clothing, work, eat, and meditate. No books allowed.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Walter Besant (1836-1901)} } @booklet {7671, title = {The Inner House}, year = {1888}, note = {

Rpt. London: Greenhill Books, 1986, with an \“Afterword\” by Brian Stableford (199).

}, month = {1888}, publisher = {J.W. Arrowsmith/Simpkin, Marshall}, address = {Bristol, Eng./London}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Overregulated and over-protective society based on science achieving near-immortality. Anti-socialist. People are generally bored, unwilling to take risks. Food is the only pleasure. No family ties. No children born to keep population in balance. The one child born (to replace someone killed by lightning) grows up romanticizing the past. Some follow her in leaving the society to reestablish that past.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Walter Besant (1836-1901)} }