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The Scarlet Empire

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Readers of individualist fiction should find this work worthwhile. It is similar to Facial Justice, by L.P. Hartley, and Time Will Run Back, by Henry Hazlitt. "It is not,"as stated in an introduction curiously hostile to the novel's ideas, "great literature." Few, if any, dystopian novels are. It is in observing life closely that great literature arises. Work that strives to either build or destroy systems naturally falls a little short. At times, however, the work holds its own. Take this line from chapter 22: "What you see about you is the equality that reigns among the dead." From this the reader may glean the story's central theme. It is a unique and engaging story requiring a degree of imagination. An attempt by an industrial era businessman to save the world from social engineering, it is interesting from a historical perspective. The volume, in fact, is classified as history. I took exception, however, to the tone taken in the introduction.