Title: In the Year 2889 Author: Jules Verne Category: Classic, Fantasy Price: $3.00 Date Added: 2006-02-14 Ebook format: .PDF Description: Editor's Notes by Blake Linton Wilfong
In 1885, James Gordon Bennett, Jr., owner of the New York Herald (the same man who sent Stanley to Africa to find Livingstone) asked Jules Verne to write a short story about life in the United States a thousand years hence. Ironically, the resulting tale was not printed until 1889--and not in the New York Herald.
It is an unusual work in every way. Verne wrote few short stories, and no others first published in English. In contrast to his conservative, plodding SF novels, "In the Year 2889" dashes wildly from one fanciful extrapolation to another. Experts believe Jules' son Michel may have authored part of the story.
Many of the predictions for the year 2889 have already come true. Verne's dystopian concept of one man... Read More... OR
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