After the Cataclysm. A Romance of the Age to Come

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TitleAfter the Cataclysm. A Romance of the Age to Come
Year for Search1909
AuthorsBlanchard, H[enry] Percy(1862-1939)
Tertiary AuthorsBlanchard, H. Percy
Date Published1909
PublisherCochrane Publishing Company
Place PublishedNew York
KeywordsCanadian author, Male author
Annotation

Post-catastrophe religious eutopia that, it is suggested, is the period of the millennium, and it takes place 33 years in the future, which is the traditional age of Christ at the time of the crucifixion. The catastrophe changed the Earth's alignment and its weather patterns producing permanent Spring and natural abundance. No one has to work but everyone helps as needed. Little social organization and people are naturally good. There is a contradiction in that while there appears to be no industry, there are airplanes. The last sentences quote Matthew 22:30 that there is "no marriage or giving in marriage" in heaven (The actual passage is a bit different and says "For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the Angels of God in heaven" KJV.)
Additional Publishers

Rpt. in Visions From the Edge: An Anthology of Atlantic Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. John Bell and Lesley Choyce (Porters Lake, NS, Canada: Pottersfield Press, 1981), 46-102 with an editor's note on 45.
Holding Institutions

Can, DLC, NcD, PSt
Author Note

The Canadian author (1862-1939) was a lawyer.
Full Text

1909 Blanchard, H[enry] Percy (1862-1939). After the Cataclysm. A Romance of the Age to Come. New York: Cochrane Publishing Company. Rpt. in Visions From the Edge: An Anthology of Atlantic Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. John Bell and Lesley Choyce (Porters Lake, NS, Canada: Pottersfield Press, 1981), 46-102 with an editor’s note on 45. Can, DLC, NcD, PSt

Post-catastrophe religious eutopia that, it is suggested, is the period of the millennium, and it takes place 33 years in the future, which is the traditional age of Christ at the time of the crucifixion. The catastrophe changed the Earth’s alignment and its weather patterns producing permanent Spring and natural abundance. No one has to work but everyone helps as needed. Little social organization and people are naturally good. There is a contradiction in that while there appears to be no industry, there are airplanes. The last sentences quote Matthew 22:30 that there is “no marriage or giving in marriage” in heaven (The actual passage is a bit different and says “For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the Angels of God in heaven” KJV.) The author was a lawyer.