@booklet {471, title = {"The Messiah of the Cylinder"}, howpublished = {Everybody{\textquoteright}s Magazine}, volume = {36 - 37}, year = {1917}, note = {

Rpt. illus. Joseph Clement Coll. Chicago, IL: A .C. McClurg \& Co., 1917; and illus. Joseph Clement Coll. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974, with an unpaged introduction, \“A Neglected Masterpiece,\” by Lester Del Rey, who characterizes it as an \“anti-utopia (or dystopia,\” written in opposition to H. G. Wells. U.K. ed. without the illus. as The Apostle of the Cylinder. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1918]. A few libraries catalog the U.K. ed. as [1919?].\ 

}, month = {June - September 1917}, pages = {657-77; 65-84, 176, 95, 335-54}, abstract = {

Scientific dystopia. A leader uses science and religion to take control of the world. A successful revolt frees people, and the ending suggests that a better world is being created.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {[Avigdor Rousseau] [Emanuel] (1879-1960)} }