Paperback
English language
Published Sept. 15, 2020 by Martino Fine Books.
Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian," it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It is arguably the novel in which Jack London's socialist views are most explicitly on display. A forerunner of soft science fiction novels and stories of the 1960s and 1970s, the book stresses future changes in society and politics while paying much less attention to technological changes.
Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian," it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It is arguably the novel in which Jack London's socialist views are most explicitly on display. A forerunner of soft science fiction novels and stories of the 1960s and 1970s, the book stresses future changes in society and politics while paying much less attention to technological changes.
This is very much a book of two parts. The second part, which deals with a dystopian future history makes for an interesting, and often surprisingly prescient, future history.
However, London spends the first half of the book detailing his opinions and this does get more than a little preachy at times.
