Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 00:12:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFAList at KeithLynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Fw: Winston Smith
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

ronkean at juno.com wrote:
> Another interesting book about 'the future' is Edward Bellamy's
> 'Looking Backward... 2000 to 1887', published in 1887.  A man goes
> to sleep in a basement room in Boston in 1887 and the room is
> somehow sealed up and forgotten.  He wakes up in a socialist America
> in the year 2000.

Yes, on Sunday September 10th.  I announced his then-pending awakening
in our calendar of upcoming events (http://www.wsfa.org/calendar.htm).

Does anyone know of any good fictional events on any specific date in
the next few years which I can add to our calendar?  Thanks.

> Americans in the year 2000 have a guaranteed annual income, equal
> for all, and have music machines on which the sound volume is
> adjustable by turning a screw.

The music machine was basically a telephone.  "Cable radio" in modern
parlance.  He also described what he called "credit cards," but which
actually worked more like debit cards.

I wouldn't enjoy that utopia much, even if it worked exactly as
described.
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