Meccania. The Super-State
| Title | Meccania. The Super-State |
| Year for Search | 1918 |
| Authors | Gregory, Owen [pseud?] |
| Date Published | 1918 |
| Publisher | Methuen & Co. |
| Place Published | London |
| Annotation | Authoritarian dystopia focusing on Germany (Meccania) written as if by a visitor from China. Every aspect of life is organized down to the smallest detail, the way one spends time must be reported weekly to the Time Department, and "The foundation of Meccanian law is that the private individual has no rights against the State" (42). |
| Pseudonym | Gregory, Owen [pseud?] |
| Holding Institutions | L, MoU-St, PSt |
| Author Note | In A Spectrum of Fantasy. Volume II. Acquisitions to a Collection of Fantastic Literature, 1980-1983 together with Additional Notes on Titles Covered in the First Volume (London: Ferret, 1994), 139, George Locke suggests that the author might be E[dmund] S[idney] P[ollock] Haynes (1877-1949). |
| Full Text | 1918 Gregory, Owen [pseud?]. Meccania. The Super-State. London: Methuen & Co. In A Spectrum of Fantasy. Volume II. Acquisitions to a Collection of Fantastic Literature, 1980-1983 together with Additional Notes on Titles Covered in the First Volume (London: Ferret, 1994), 139, George Locke suggests that the author might be E[dmund] S[idney] P[ollock] Haynes (1877-1949). L, MoU-St, PSt Authoritarian dystopia focusing on Germany (Meccania) written as if by a visitor from China. Every aspect of life is organized down to the smallest detail, the way one spends time must be reported weekly to the Time Department, and “The foundation of Meccanian law is that the private individual has no rights against the State” (42). |
