"A Story of The Days To Come"

1899 Wells, H[erbert] G[eorge] (1866-1946). “A Story of The Days To Come.” In his Tales of Space and Time (London: Harper & Bros., 1900), 165-324. U.S. ed. (New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1899), 165-324. Rpt. in Amazing Stories 3.1 –2 (April - May 1928): 6-25, 134-47; and in The Complete Short Stories of H.G. Wells. Ed. John Hammond (London: J.M. Dent, 1998), 333-98. Originally published as a linked series of stories illus. by Edmund J. Sullivan in the Pall Mall Magazine in 1899 as follows: “The Cure for Love. A Story of the Days to Come (Anno Domini 2090.)” 18.74 (June): 186-99; “The Vacant Country. A Story of the Days to Come (Anno Domini 2090.)” 18.75 (July): 309-23; “The Ways of the City. A Story of the Days to Come. (Anno Domini 2090-2095.)” 18.76 (August): 491-505; “Underneath. A Story of the Days to Come. (Anno Domini 2098.)” 19.77 (September): 81-94; and “The Magnanimity of the Man of Pleasure. A Story of the Days to Come. (Anno Domini 2097.)” 19.78 (October): 222-34 [L(NL)]. In the 1900 version, the last story is changed significantly, and the title is changed to “Bindon Intervenes.” IEN, L, L(NL), Merril, MoU, PSt

Dystopia controlled by trusts and the Labour Company. No family life.