@booklet {10215, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Within an Ace of the End of the World{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {McClure{\textquoteright}s Magazine}, volume = {14}, year = {1900}, month = {April 1900}, pages = {545-55}, abstract = {

The dystopia produced when capitalists draw nitrogen from the atmosphere to produce food. See the discussion in Steve Asselin, \“Apocalypse Inc. Incorporating the Environment into the Boom/Bust Cycle in Fin-de-Si{\`e}cle Science Fiction.\” CR: The New Centennial Review 19.1 (Spring 2019): 181-203.\ The author was born in Scotland, raised in Canada from age four, lived briefly in the U.S., and moved to England in 1881.\ 

}, keywords = {Canadian author, English author, Male author, US author}, author = {Robert Barr (1850-1912)} } @booklet {7890, title = {"The Revolt of the----: A Page from the domestic history of the Twentieth Century"}, howpublished = {The Idler Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly}, volume = { 5.4 }, year = {1894}, note = {

Rpt. in When Women Rule. Ed. Sam[uel] Moskowitz (New York: Walker, 1972), 62-71.

}, month = {May 1894}, pages = {357-69}, abstract = {

Gender-role reversal satire.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, English author, Male author, US author}, author = {Robert Barr (1850-1912)} } @booklet {7866, title = {"The Fear of It"}, howpublished = {The Idler Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly}, volume = { 3.4 }, year = {1893}, note = {

Rpt. in his The Face and the Mask (London: Hutchinson, 1894), 30-40. U.S. ed. (New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1895), 25-33.

}, month = {May 1893}, pages = {422-29}, abstract = {

Story describing a religious community that believes so deeply in heaven that it welcomes death. Simple, austere life.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, English author, Male author, US author}, author = {Robert Barr (1850-1912)} } @booklet {9779, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Doom of London{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly}, volume = {2}, year = {1892}, note = {

Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 7.1 (38) (July 1954): 25-34 with an editor\’s note on 34; and in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Australian ed.) 6 ([February 1956]): 23-33.\ 

}, month = {November 1892}, pages = {397-409}, abstract = {

The dystopia created in London when the combination of fog and smoke cut off oxygen at ground level and millions die, with the suggestion that the reduction in population plus advanced technology have produced a better life fifty years later.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, English author, Male author, US author}, author = {Robert Barr (1850-1912)} }