“The Doom of London”

Year for Search
1892
Secondary Title
The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly
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Annotation

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.

Volume / Edition
2
Pagination
397-409
Published Date

November 1892

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1892 Barr, Robert (1850-1912). “The Doom of London.” Illus. A. S. Boyd. The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly 2 (November 1892): 397-409. 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. PSt

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. The author was born in Scotland, raised in Canada from age four, lived briefly in the U.S., and moved to England in 1881.

Additional Publishers

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. 

Illustration

Illus. A. S. Boyd

Author Note

The author was born in Scotland, raised in Canada from age four, lived briefly in the U.S., and moved to England in 1881.

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