"Swiftly"
| Title | "Swiftly" |
| Year for Search | 2002 |
| Authors | Roberts, Adam [Charles](b. 1965) |
| Secondary Title | SciFiction |
| Date Published | 2002 |
| Keywords | English author, Male author |
| Annotation | Dystopia in which the Lilliputians from Swift's Gulliver's Travels are slaves in a late nineteenth-century Britain, the Brobdingnagians have been hunted, and the Houyhnhnms are for sale. A French invasion led by the Brobdingnagians and with inventions from Laputa ends the system. A related story with the Lilliputians as slaves is his "Eleanor", which was first published in Swiftly (167-247). |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in his Swiftly: Stories That Never Were and Might Not Be (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2004), 1-34. |
| URL | www.scifi.com/scifiction/ Posted April 3, 2002. No longer available online. |
| Author Note | The English author (b. 1965) is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. |
| Full Text | 2002 Roberts, Adam [Charles] (b. 1965). “Swiftly.” SciFiction www.scifi.com/scifiction/ Posted April 3, 2002. No longer available on line. Rpt. in his Swiftly: Stories That Never Were and Might Not Be (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2004), 1-34. Dystopia in which the Lilliputians from Jonathan Swift’s 1727 Gulliver’s Travels are slaves in a late nineteenth-century Britain, the Brobdingnagians have been hunted, and the Houyhnhnms are for sale. A French invasion led by the Brobdingnagians and with inventions from Laputa ends the system. A related story with the Lilliputians as slaves is his “Eleanor”, which was first published in Swiftly (167-247). The English author is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. |
