Thoth: A Romance

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TitleThoth: A Romance
Year for Search1888
Authors[Nicholson], [Joseph Shield](1850-1927)
Date Published1888
PublisherWilliam Blackwood and Sons
Place PublishedEdinburgh, Scot.
KeywordsEnglish author, Male author
Annotation

Society intended by its founders to be a eutopia is a dystopia. Rule by reason alone with mixed result. Genetics produces a class system based on inbred talents and physical characteristics. Scientifically advanced. Most people are happy, but the founder hated women and upper class women are treated very badly. Plan to kill everyone else in the world.
Additional Publishers

2nd ed. Edinburgh, Scot.: William Blackwood & Sons, 1889 contains as an appendix a previously unpublished version of the first chapter as it had been originally written in 1876. 
Holding Institutions

DLC, L, LLL, PSt
Author Note

(1850-1927)
Full Text

1888 [Nicholson, Joseph Shield] (1850-1927). Thoth: A Romance. Edinburgh, Scot.: William Blackwood and Sons. 2nd ed. Edinburgh, Scot.: William Blackwood & Sons, 1889 contains as an appendix a previously unpublished version of the first chapter as it had been originally written in 1876. DLC, L, LLL, PSt

Society intended by its founders to be a eutopia is a dystopia. Rule by reason alone with mixed result. Genetics produces a class system based on inbred talents and physical characteristics. Scientifically advanced. Most people are happy, but the founder hated women and upper class women are treated very badly. Plan to kill everyone else in the world.