“The Doom of London”
| Title | “The Doom of London” |
| Year for Search | 1892 |
| Authors | Barr, Robert(1850-1912) |
| Secondary Title | The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly |
| Volume / Edition | 2 |
| Pagination | 397-409 |
| Date Published | November 1892 |
| Keywords | Canadian author, English author, Male author, US author |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Full Text | 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. |
