| The Year 3000: A Dream Contributor(s): Mantegazza, Paolo (Author), Pireddu, Nicoletta (Editor), Jacobson, David (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0803232993 ISBN-13: 9780803232990 Publisher: Bison Books OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Other - Other Formats Published: June 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - General - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Bison Frontiers of Imagination |
| Physical Information: 225 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: First published in 1897, The Year 3000 is the most daring and original work of fiction by the prominent Italian anthropologist Paolo Mantegazza. A futuristic utopian novel, the book follows two young lovers who, as they travel from Rome to the capital of the United Planetary States to celebrate their OC mating union, OCO encounter the marvels of cultural and scientific advances along the way. Intriguing in itself, The Year 3000 is also remarkable for both its vision of the future (predicting an astonishing array of phenomena from airplanes, artificial intelligence, CAT scans, and credit cards to controversies surrounding divorce, abortion, and euthanasia) and the window it opens on fin de si cle Europe |