Five Hundred Years Hence
| Title | Five Hundred Years Hence |
| Year for Search | 1830 |
| Date Published | 1980 |
| Publisher | Ferret |
| Place Published | London |
| Annotation | 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. |
| Info Notes | 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. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Full Text | [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. |
