@booklet {7927, title = {"A.D. 1900--Application for Leave to Give a Dinner"}, howpublished = {Pall Mall Gazette}, volume = {no. 9221 }, year = {1894}, month = {October 12, 1894}, pages = {3}, abstract = {

Satire on contemporary manners projected slightly into the future.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {[Herbert] [George] [Wells] (1866-1946)} } @booklet {8707, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Hygenic Country{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Lika Joko}, volume = {no. 9}, year = {1894}, month = {December 15, 1894}, pages = {165}, abstract = {

Satire on reforms in hygiene and diet through an island called Hygeia where anything that might cause disease has been destroyed and the water purified. The people eat only brown bread, stewed fruit, and new milk.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {[Herbert] [George] [Wells] (1866-1946)} } @booklet {8708, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Island of Opera{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Lika Joko}, volume = {no. 6}, year = {1894}, month = {November 24, 1894}, pages = {105}, abstract = {

Satire on opera in which sailors come across the Island of Opera in the Archipelago of Music.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {[Herbert] [George] [Wells] (1866-1946)} } @booklet {7864, title = {"The Man of the Year Million. A Scientific Forecast"}, howpublished = {Pall Mall Gazette 57.8931}, volume = {57.8931}, year = {1893}, note = {

Rpt. in the Pall Mall Budget, no. 1312 (November 16, 1893): 1796-97; in \"Of a Book Unwritten.\" In his Certain Personal Matters. A Collection of Material, Mainly Autobiographical (London: Lawrence \& Bullen, 1898), 161-71; and in English Illustrated Magazine 26 (January 1902): 381-84.

}, month = {November 6, 1893}, pages = {3}, abstract = {

Satire on far future forecasting; people will have larger brains and larger hands and use their hands for locomotion. The rest of the body has shriveled. Punch took it seriously and spoofed it in \"1,000,000 A.D.\" Punch 105 (November 25, 1893): 250.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {[Herbert] [George] [Wells] (1866-1946)} }