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Looking Backward: 2000 - 1887
Looking Backward: 2000 - 1887 | Edward Bellamy
Edward Bellamys Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (1888) is one of the most influential utopian novels in English. The narrative follows Julian West, who goes to sleep in Boston in 1887 and wakes in the year 2000 to find that the era of competitive capitalism is long over, replaced by an era of co-operation. Wealth is produced by an "industrial army" and every citizen receives the same wage. This edition contains a rich selection of appendices, including excerpts from Bellamy's Equality and other writings; contemporary responses (by William Morris, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and others); excerpts from utopian works by Morris and William Dean Howells; and an excerpt from Henry George's Progress and Poverty.
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Recent fiction acquisitions:

📖 Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy
📖 Testimonies by Patrick O'Brian
📖 Falling for Hamlet by Michelle Ray

#UniteAgainstBookBans #LetUtahRead

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Eggs
Looking Backwards | Edward Bellamy
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@marleed !!!!!

marleed Haha. You have a collection too! Someday we‘ll have to shop together! 5y
Crazeedi Awesome pic, love books like these! 5y
Eggs @Crazeedi Thanks! @marleed posted about how many HF covers include people from behind looking the other way.....ever notice that? (edited) 5y
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Crazeedi @Eggs yes I did see @marleed post, it's so strange, isn't it 5y
marleed @Crazeedi @Eggs. And I only included the books I physically own for WWII HF. I wonder how many I own if I searched my shelves across any genre. I am curious about the ubiquitous use of the backside view of longing stare. And when it‘s a single person or a trio. It‘s almost a story in itself! 5y
Crazeedi @marleed there has to be some reason for publishers to decide to do this. Wonder what it is 5y
Eggs Indeed! @marleed @crazeedi I‘m going to look through my shelves for these types of covers 5y
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TNG epi 4.8 #FutureImperfect: Riker waking up 16 years in the future with a son, a captaincy and a wild case of WTF. Or does he? Simple plot, ok acting, GREAT aging makeup and BAD creature makeup (Lord, is the alien bad!). Not transcendant but fun.

My favourite waking-in-the-future story is one of the first: Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy (1888) is a socialist utopia that stands up better than many golden age SF.

#startreksummermay #day11

suzisteffen Oh yes, Looking Backward is amazing. We actually read it in a history class at university. 6y
tournevis @suzisteffen I love it! 6y
suzisteffen @tournevis yeah, good socialist prof. ;) 6y
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tournevis @suzisteffen A prof after mine own heart! 6y
Megabooks Lovely episode analysis! Interesting book. 👍🏻🖖🏻 6y
Megabooks Who doesn‘t like what Mom and I call skunk stripes in everyone‘s hair! 6y
tournevis @Megabooks I do! Seriously though, the aged makeup in this epi is better than in any other TNG epi. It's pretty bad in the finale, and Soong, gah! 6y
tournevis @Megabooks This book is great. In that future, you know who are the only true artists left, the last real celebrities? Hair dressers. 6y
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I enjoyed the book. I like early science fiction that looks forward to our present day. Bellamy has a utopian view of the future, possibly starry eyed. I like his imagination of a future society in which the goal is for all people to be happy. Love the idea of the pneumatic goods transfer system and the sidewalks with deployable awnings; drawing a mental picture that stayed with me. Not overly scientific, but I still very much enjoyed it.

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Onceuponatime
Looking Backwards | Edward Bellamy
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I was in a model home yesterday and was baffled when I saw the books shelved backwards. I don‘t get it? Does this make the home more stylish? SMH 🤦🏼‍♀️

WordyForever I think it‘s to make everything look more neutral 6y
emilyhaldi It does look somewhat aesthetically pleasing in this context... But I could never do it 🙃 6y
Reviewsbylola Lol I agree with @emilyhaldi in that it looks nice but I‘m dying to know what the actual books are. 😂 6y
MemoirsForMe @Reviewsbylola I'm with you. When no one was looking, I'd be turning those books around! 😂 6y
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tournevis
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Woohoo! *Happy historian dance*

Shemac77 Congratulations!! 7y
Redwritinghood 🎉🍾🎉 7y
tournevis @Shemac77 Thanky! 7y
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julesG Congratulations! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 7y
Texreader Way. To. Go!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎉🎉🎉 7y
LeahBergen 🎉🎉🎉🎉 7y
tournevis @julesG 😘😘 7y
tournevis @Texreader 😘😘 7y
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CharmaineLim
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I rage-quit this with a hundred pages left in the book. No one tell my professor because I was supposed to read this for class

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Reading this for school and I have to finish it by Friday.....