"For the Ahkoond"

Title"For the Ahkoond"
Year for Search1888
AuthorsB[ierce], A[mbrose Gwinett](1842-1914?)
Secondary TitleSan Francisco Examiner
Pagination13
Date PublishedMarch 18, 1888
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Satire set in 4591 when the protagonist explores the remnant of the United States, which has been depopulated, with a monarchy remaining on the West Coast.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce. Volume 1 (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1909), 197-214. Rpt. (New York: Gordian Press, 1966), 1: 197-214; in The Fall of the Republic and Other Political Satires. Ed. S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000), 94-100; and in Scientific Romance: An International Anthology of Pioneering Science Fiction. Ed. Brian M[ichael] Stableford (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2017), 172-79.

Info Notes

The San Francisco Examiner was known as the Evening Examiner at the time

Holding Institutions

DLC, L, MnU

Author Note

(1842-1914?)

Full Text

1888 B[ierce], A[mbrose Gwinett] (1842-1914?). “For the Ahkoond.” San Francisco Examiner [Known as the Evening Examiner at the time] (March 18, 1888): 13. Rpt. in The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce. Volume 1 (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1909), 197-214. Rpt. (New York: Gordian Press, 1966), 1: 197-214; in The Fall of the Republic and Other Political Satires. Ed. S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000), 94-100; and in Scientific Romance: An International Anthology of Pioneering Science Fiction. Ed. Brian M[ichael] Stableford (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2017), 172-79. DLC, L, MnU

Satire set in 4591 when the protagonist explores the remnant of the United States, which has been depopulated, with a monarchy remaining on the West Coast.