The Question Mark (British Library Science Fiction Classics) - Softcover

Buch 6 von 12: British Library Science Fiction Classics

Jaeger, Muriel

 
9780712352987: The Question Mark (British Library Science Fiction Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0712352988 ISBN 13: 9780712352987
Verlag: British Library Publishing, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

In 1926 Muriel Jaeger, dissatisfied with the Utopian visions of H G Wells and Edward Bellamy, set out to explore `The Question Mark’ of what a future society might look like if human nature were properly represented. So, disgruntled London office worker Guy Martin is pitched 200 years into the future, where he encounters a seemingly ideal society in which each citizen has the luxury of every kind of freedom. But as Guy adjusts to the new world, the fractures of this supposed Utopia begin to show through, and it seems as if the inhabitants of this society might be just as susceptible to the promises of false messiahs as those of the twentieth century. Preceding the publication of Huxley’s Brave New World by 5 years, The Question Mark is a significant cornerstone in the foundation of the Dystopia genre, and an impressive and unjustly neglected work of literary science fiction. This edition brings the novel back into print for the first time since its original publication.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Muriel Jaeger (1892–1969) was a prolific writer of history books, essays and science fiction, and was amongst the first women to receive degrees at Somerville College, Oxford. She later became associated with Leonard and Virginia Woolf, who published her pioneering science fiction novels The Question Mark (1926) and The Man with Six Senses (1927).

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In 1926 Muriel Jaeger set out to explore `The Question Mark’ of what a future society might look like if human nature were properly represented. The result is a pioneering science fiction novel and forerunner of the now-familiar genre of dystopia, in which the utopian society of the future is not the paradise it appears at first glance.

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Verlag
British Library Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0712352988
ISBN 13 
9780712352987
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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