Five Hundred Years Hence

TitleFive Hundred Years Hence
Year for Search1830
Date Published1980
PublisherFerret
Place PublishedLondon
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Satire on future technology with elements of a technological eutopia. Balloons are the dominant means of transportation, including trips to an inhabited moon. Weather control. No disease. Infallible justice provided by machines.

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First publication of an incomplete play written about 1830. According to George Locke's description of the manuscript "A.D. 2330, or" is in pencil above the title and "in Two acts--(only one written)" is in pencil after the title. See Locke's Voyages in Space: The Interplanetary Theme in Creative Writing to 1914. A Researcher's Companion ([London]: Privately Printed, 2011), 7.

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[1830?] Five Hundred Years Hence. London: Ferret, 1980. First publication of an incomplete play written about 1830. According to George Locke’s description of the manuscript “A.D. 2330, or” is in pencil above the title and “in Two acts--(only one written)” is in pencil after the title. See Locke’s Voyages in Space: The Interplanetary Theme in Creative Writing to 1914. A Researcher’s Companion ([London]: Privately Printed, 2011), 7. PSt

Satire on future technology with elements of a technological eutopia. Balloons are the dominant means of transportation, including trips to an inhabited moon. Weather control. No disease. Infallible justice provided by machines.