The Last Generation: A Story of the Future

TitleThe Last Generation: A Story of the Future
Year for Search1908
AuthorsFlecker, James [Herman] Elroy(1884-1915)
Date Published1908
PublisherNew Age Press
Place PublishedLondon
KeywordsEnglish author, Male author
Annotation

Dystopia produced by trying to achieve eutopia. People stopped producing children in order to live better. Horrors of the last generation.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in his Collected Prose (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1920), 1-32; rpt. (London: William Heinemann, 1922), 1-32; and in The Way to the End Times: Classic Tales of the Apocalypse. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Three Rooms Press, 2016), 46-64, with an “Editor’s Introduction” on 44-45. Expanded version of a story first published in his privately printed The Best Man. Eights Weeks, 1906. Oxford: np, 1906), 9-13. 

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Author Note

(1884-1915)

Full Text

1908 Flecker, James [Herman] Elroy (1884-1915). The Last Generation: A Story of the Future. London: New Age Press, 1908. Rpt. in his Collected Prose (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1920), 1-32; rpt. (London: William Heinemann, 1922), 1-32; and in The Way to the End Times: Classic Tales of the Apocalypse. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Three Rooms Press, 2016), 46-64, with an “Editor’s Introduction” on 44-45. Expanded version of a story first published in his privately printed The Best Man. Eights Weeks, 1906. Oxford: np, 1906), 9-13. L, NLS, O, PSt

Dystopia produced by trying to achieve eutopia. People stopped producing children in order to live better. Horrors of the last generation.