Collected in this volume are nine of Bellamy's finest tales of mystery and imagination. Defying conventional genres, his speculative fiction is far-ranging in mode and theme. In 'To Whom This May Come' we find ourselves on a South Sea Island inhabited entirely by mindreaders; there's the bizarre humor of 'With The Eyes Shut', a disquieting satire on technology gone mad; 'Two Days Solitary Imprisonment' has all of the brooding atmosphere of a modern whodunit. Franklin Rosemount's provocative introduction explores the continuity between these early tales and Bellamy's later utopia, and argues that "the changes Bellamy made in his utopia during the last ten years of his life - the withering away of authoritarian features that had marred 'Looking Backward', and the expansion of its libertarian, working class, feminist and ecological dimensions in his last great work, 'Equality' - not only reflected the author's basically positive response to his anarchist, Marxist and feminist critics, but also brought his vision of the future into line with key elements of his own earlier fiction." Illustrated with the collages of Hal Rammel.
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Definitely apparitions...,
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I was intrigued with Bellamy's "Looking Backward" and, besides the utopian philosophy, was fascinated by his technological visions. This book contains nine (9) short stories and an appendix with "Plots for Stories." According to the introduction, "each tale challenges the conventional, reified notions of reality, behavior, society or human nature." I'm not sure about that. Five of the stories seem to fit that bill, while the other four seemed merely Victorian in nature. Either way, the introduction was definitely detailed and informative.
The title, "Apparitions of Things to Come," is not really accurate either. There didn't seem to be many visionary tales. There was only one tale which definitely fit in the technological vision category. But, I would have bought a used version just to have read it.
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THE NARRATIVE to which this note is introductory was found among the papers of the late Professor S. Erastus Larrabee, and, as an acquaintance of the gentleman to whom they were bequeathed, I was requested to prepare it for publication. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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THE NARRATIVE to which this note is introductory was found among the papers of the late Professor S. Erastus Larrabee, and, as an acquaintance of the gentleman to whom they were bequeathed, I was requested to prepare it for publication. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Looking Backward (Signet Classics) by Edward Bellamy on 17 pages
- Edward Bellamy (Twayne's United States Authors Series) by Sylvia E. Bowman on 5 pages
- Talks on Nationalism (Select bibliographies reprint series) by Edward Bellamy on 4 pages
- Edward Bellamy (Perspectives in American History, No. 18) by Arthur E. Morgan on 4 pages
- Edward Bellamy Abroad by Sylvia E. Bowman in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
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