| The Millennium: A Comedy of the Year 2000 Contributor(s): Sinclair, Upton (Author), Jensen, Carl (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1583220216 ISBN-13: 9781583220214 Publisher: Seven Stories Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2000 Annotation: Upton Sinclair's fictional vision, created in 1907, explores the state of society at the end of the millennium. Illustrations throughout. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Alternative History - Fiction | Science Fiction - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 99045225 |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 5.58" W x 8.3" (0.58 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 21st Century - Topical - Millennium |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 1907, Upton Sinclair looked forward 93 years and imagined the year 2000, when capitalism would find its zenith with the construction of The Pleasure Palace, a glittering half-mile-high structure in the middle of Central Park. During the grand opening of the towering building, a scientific experiment with radiumite explodes killing everybody throughout the world except eleven of the people at the Pleasure Palace. They escape the deadly rays by flying high in the sky in a revolutionary 1000-mph airplane called The Monarch of the Air The fortunate eleven survivors struggle to rebuild their lives by creating a capitalistic society. After that fails, along with several other inept efforts, they create a successful utopian society on the lush grounds of a grand country estate in the Pocantico Hills above the Hudson River. Sinclair's life-long vision, The Cooperative Commonwealth, reigns happily forever after, in this classic of the literature of political imagination. |