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The Year 3000 - A Dream (Paperback, annotated edition)
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The Year 3000 - A Dream (Paperback, annotated edition)
Series: Bison Frontiers of Imagination
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First published in 1897, "The Year 3000" is the most daring and
original work of fiction by the prominent Italian anthropologist
Paolo Mantegazza. A futuristic utopian novel, the book follows two
young lovers who, as they travel from Rome to the capital of the
United Planetary States to celebrate their "mating union,"
encounter the marvels of cultural and scientific advances along the
way. Intriguing in itself, "The Year 3000" is also remarkable for
both its vision of the future (predicting an astonishing array of
phenomena from airplanes, artificial intelligence, CAT scans, and
credit cards to controversies surrounding divorce, abortion, and
euthanasia) and the window it opens on fin de siecle Europe.
Published here for the first time in English, this richly annotated
edition features an invaluable introductory essay that interprets
the intertextual and intercultural connections within and beyond
Mantegazza's work. For its critical contribution to early science
fiction and for its insights into the hopes, fears, and clash of
values in the Western world of both Mantegazza's time and our own,
this book belongs among the visionary giants of speculative
literature.
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