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The Question Mark (British Library Science Fiction Classics)

✍ Scribed by Jaeger, Muriel;Moulton, Mo

Book ID: 100604441
Publisher: British Library Publishing
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Weight: 198 KB
Series: British Library Science Fiction Classics
Category: Fiction
City: London
ISBN: 0712364757

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✦ Synopsis

In 1925 Muriel Jaeger, dissatisfied with the unrealistic utopian stories 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 truthfully represented.  Her hero, disgruntled office worker Guy, is pitched 200 years into a future London where each citizen is offered free education and a personal ‘power-box’ granting access to communication, transportation and entertainment. To Guy, the great challenges facing society seem solved, but its inhabitants tell a different story of fractured life in this supposed utopia. 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 work of literary science fiction.

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