Looking Backward
2000-1887
Edward Bellamy's 1888 utopian novel in which a man sleeps for 100 years and wakes to a socialist America.
Looking Backward: 2000-1887 is a utopian time travel novel by the American writer Edward Bellamy, published in 1888. Its hero, Julian West, sleeps for 100 years and wakes in a future America where an industrial society shares capital equally. The book sold a million copies and inspired more than 160 Bellamy Clubs in the United States. Chan Koonchung calls it prescient for its picture of a Communist state to come.
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Chan Koonchung
It was very prescient, in the sense that Bellamy almost tells the future of a certain Communist country that came two decades later.
Interview · August 2013
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