Download or read book City of Endless Night written by Milo Hastings and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City of Endless Night (1919) is a dystopian novel which first appeared as the story "Children of Kultur" serialized in True Story Magazine in seven installments from May to November, 1919. The word kultur, German for culture, had been made infamous by Allied propaganda in World War I. Set in future of 1941, City of Endless Night anticipates the resurgence of Germany and the rise of fascism. Other highlights of its immense foresight are the idea of a rigidly controlled press, rise of Nazi religion, racial theories and Eugenic breeding. A Must Read! Milo Milton Hastings (1884–1957) was an American inventor, author, and nutritionist. He invented the forced-draft chicken incubator and Weeniwinks, a health-food snack. He wrote about chickens, science fiction, and health.

Download or read book CITY OF ENDLESS NIGHT Political Dystopia written by Milo Hastings and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-03-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City of Endless Night (1919) is a dystopian novel which first appeared as the story "Children of Kultur" serialized in True Story Magazine in seven installments from May to November, 1919. The word kultur, German for culture, had been made infamous by Allied propaganda in World War I. Set in future of 1941, City of Endless Night anticipates the resurgence of Germany and the rise of fascism. Other highlights of its immense foresight are the idea of a rigidly controlled press, rise of Nazi religion, racial theories and Eugenic breeding. A Must Read! Milo Milton Hastings (1884–1957) was an American inventor, author, and nutritionist. He invented the forced-draft chicken incubator and Weeniwinks, a health-food snack. He wrote about chickens, science fiction, and health.

Download or read book City of Endless Night written by Milo Hastings and published by Musaicum Books. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook edition of "City of Endless Night" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. City of Endless Night (1919) is a dystopian novel which first appeared as the story "Children of Kultur" serialized in True Story Magazine in seven installments from May to November, 1919. The word kultur, German for culture, had been made infamous by Allied propaganda in World War I. Set in future of 1941, City of Endless Night anticipates the resurgence of Germany and the rise of fascism. Other highlights of its immense foresight are the idea of a rigidly controlled press, rise of Nazi religion, racial theories and Eugenic breeding. A Must Read! Milo Milton Hastings (1884–1957) was an American inventor, author, and nutritionist. He invented the forced-draft chicken incubator and Weeniwinks, a health-food snack. He wrote about chickens, science fiction, and health.

Download or read book City of Endless Night written by Milo Hastings and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milo Milton Hastings (1884-1957) was an American author, inventor, and cigarette-smoking nutritionist. Many believe that his most memorable novel, City of Endless Night, exercised a direct influence on Metropolis (1927), Fritz Lang's infamous science fiction film. In City of Endless Night Hasting anticipates the resurgence of Germany and its tilt toward fascism. In the words of science fiction critic Sam Moskowitz, "On all counts of inventiveness, social significance, narrative flow and intrinsic worth, [City . . . ] ranks with When the Sleeper Wakes by H.G. Wells, Messiah of the Cylinder by Victor Rousseau and We by Eugene Zamiatin, all written and published about the same period." The "city of night" is Berlin of the year 2041, a Berlin that has become an entirely roofed-in city of sixty levels, sheltering 300,000,000 sun-starved humans. Since 1941 the city has held its ground against the World State, which has worked to bomb it into line innumerable times. Hohenzollerns rule this world with the "graces" of autocratic socialism . . . As the 21st Century gives bountiful evidence that totalitarian dreams and impulses remain forceful, even in liberal democracies, City of Endless Night stands as an indispensable political and psychological investigation.WISEBLOOD BOOKS is dedicated to preserving, editing, and publishing fiction, philosophy, and other works fit for the world stage. We believe that many manuscripts should be published widely but remain buried in desk drawers because they cannot meet the New York publishing industry's often dubious demands. We aim to remedy that. Our WISEBLOOD CLASSICS series brings hard-to-find works back into being and introduces great books to a new generation. Visit us at www.wisebloodbooks.com. We are wide-eyed for new epiphanies of truth.

Download or read book City of Endless Night Illustrated written by Milo Milton Hastings and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An example of early dystopian science fiction written shortly after World War I, City of Endless Night imagines a future with a very different ending to the Great War. Set in 2151 and in an underground Berlin, our protagonist is Lyman De Forrest, an American chemist who enters the city to discover the hidden truths of a forbidden metropolis. The subterranean world hosts a highly-regimented society of 300,000,000 sun-starved humans.

Download or read book City of Endless Night written by Milo M. Hastings and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-05 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City of Endless Night by Milo M. Hastings An anti-German dystopic vision of the future. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Download or read book City of Endless Night written by Milo Hastings and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-21 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the pioneering anti-Utopian novels, one of the finest and least known is City of Endless Night by Milo Hastings, first published in book form by Dodd, Mead in 1920. This unusual work, filled with uncanny prescience about impending events, was born out of the experience of World War I and the impact on Americans of imperial Germany's statist creed, which believed in the subjugation of the individual for the sake of the nation. On all counts of inventiveness, social significance, narrative flow and intrinsic worth, it ranks with When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells, Messiah of the Cylinder by Victor Rousseau and We by Eugene Zimiatin, all written and published about the same period.

Download or read book City of Endless Night written by Milo M. Hastings and published by Hesperus Classics. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and disturbing dystopian vision from a neglected sci-fi master, imagining an all too terrifying alternate ending to World War I and its implications for the human race The year is 2041. Since the end of WWI, Berlin has been an enormous subterranean city, home to 300 million citizens who have never seen the sun, and presided over by the autocratic Hohenzollern dynasty. Every aspect of life is regimented; from controlled rations that are issued on the basis of work-for-food, to a press that works exclusively under the auspices of the Information Service. Christianity has been abolished and all breeding is carried out on the basis of strict eugenic principles. Lyman De Forrest, an American chemist, discovers a way of neutralizing Berlin's defenses and, assuming the identity of a dead German man, enters the city to discover its hidden truths. The first outsider for decades to enter the forbidden metropolis, he is horrified to find a society where women are kept in isolation for breeding or the pleasuring of high status men. Can De Forrest escape this living tomb? Published shortly after the end of WWI, this tremendous example of early dystopian science fiction is thought to have been the inspiration behind Fritz Lang's "Metropolis."

Download or read book The City of Endless Night written by Milo Hastings and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-20 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 2041. Since the end of WWI, Berlin has been an enormous subterranean city, home to 300 million citizens who have never seen the sun, and presided over by the autocratic Hohenzollern dynasty. Every aspect of life is regimented; from controlled rations that are issued on the basis of work-for-food, to a press that works exclusively under the auspices of the Information Service. Christianity has been abolished and all breeding is carried out on the basis of strict eugenic principles. Lyman De Forrest, an American chemist, discovers a way of neutralizing Berlin's defenses and, assuming the identity of a dead German man, enters the city to discover its hidden truths. The first outsider for decades to enter the forbidden metropolis, he is horrified to find a society where women are kept in isolation for breeding or the pleasuring of high status men. Can De Forrest escape this living tomb? Published shortly after the end of WWI, this tremendous example of early dystopian science fiction is thought to have been the inspiration behind Fritz Lang's Metropolis.

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Download or read book Pardon This Intrusion written by John Clute and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2016-11-24 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pardon This Intrusion gathers together 47 pieces by John Clute, some written as long ago as 1985, though most are recent. The addresses and essays in Part One, "Fantastika in the World Storm", all written in the twenty-first century, reflect upon the dynamic relationship between fantastika - an umbrella term Clute uses to describe science fiction, horror and fantasy - and the world we live in now. Of these pieces, "Next", a contemporary response to 9/11, has not been revised; everything else in Part One has been reworked, sometimes extensively. Parts Two, Three and Four include essays and author studies and introductions to particular works; as they are mostly recent, Clute has felt free to rework them where necessary. The few early pieces - including "Lunch with AJ and the WOMBATS", a response to the Scientology scandal at the Brighton WorldCon in 1987 - are unchanged.

Download or read book Dystopia Boxed Set 18 Dystopian Classics in One Edition written by Jack London and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-23 with total page 3583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique collection of "DYSTOPIA Boxed Set: 18 Dystopian Classics in One Edition" has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. Contents: 1984 (George Orwell) Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) It Can't Happen Here (Sinclair Lewis) That Hideous Strength (C. S. Lewis) Iron Heel (Jack London) We (Yevgeny Zamyatin) Meccania the Super-State (Owen Gregory) Lord of the World (Hugh Benson) When The Sleeper Wakes (H. G. Wells) The Time Machine (H. G. Wells) The First Men in the Moon (H. G. Wells) Caesar's Column (Ignatius Donnelly) The Secret of the League (Ernest Bramah) City of Endless Night (Milo Hastings) Looking Further Backward (Arthur Dudley Vinton) The Heads of Cerberus (Francis Stevens) The Fixed Period (Anthony Trollope) Animal Farm (George Orwell)

Download or read book Science Fiction the Evolutionary Mythology of the Future written by Thomas Lombardo and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth history of science fiction, covering the years 1895 to 1930, from H. G. Wells and his novel The Time Machine to Thea von Harbou and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. The book examines science fiction literature, art, cinema, and comics, and the impact of culture, philosophy, science, technology, and futures studies on the development of science fiction. Further, the book describes the influence of science fiction on human society and the evolution of future consciousness. Other key figures discussed include Méliès, Gernsback, Burroughs, Merritt, Huxley, and Hodgson.

Download or read book The Dystopian Nation of City State written by James Courtney and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an anthology of short stories related to the dystopian, post-American nation of City-State. The Stories are loosely related at times, but can be read as stand-alone stores, for the most part. This is a precursor to a trilogy that will be coming out soon. We hope you enjoy this world we created. FROM THE BACK COVER Welcome to City-State. After war and turmoil destroyed the United States in 2195, a new nation emerged, and The Second Dark Age ended. In the year 3211, the people of the nation of City-State are tormented by their current government. Beneath a beautiful urban landscape of bright lights, two-hundred story skyscrapers, and breathtaking technology, City-State holds deep, destructive secrets, rife with political subterfuge, and inhumane barbarism. Here, each story illuminates the common man, the cruel politicians, and the bizarre, yet unique citizens who fall somewhere in the middle. This collection of short stories showcases the perils of a heartless nation, the promises of hope, and the shadow of rebellion.

Download or read book City of Endless Night written by Milo Hastings and published by . This book was released on with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of World War I, Milo Hastings imagined a future in which the then newly established League of Nations and Weimar Republic had both collapsed. He described a theoretical scenario in which Germany would be ruled by a single man who had leveraged the forces of ethnonationalism, socialism, and religion to declare himself a god. Hastings mused that Germany would instigate a second world war in 1983 and that a radical breakthrough in weapons technology would cause that war to devolve into a stalemate. He reasoned that such a war would allow Germany's dictator to seize absolute control over every aspect of society. Books would be banned, the family would be replaced by a breeding program aimed at creating a "super-race," the Jewish problem would be solved once and for all, and Germany would aspire to cleanse the earth of the "mongrel peoples." Hastings' pessimistic predictions turned out to be forty years too optimistic. - "In the Berlin of 2151, three-hundred million people live underground. The city is in a state of perpetual war with the rest of the world, its besieged population locked beneath an impenetrable dome. Religion has been rewritten, information is controlled by the state, and breeding is governed by eugenics. But a ray of hope descends into the underworld when a young American chemist manages to infiltrate the subterranean society in an attempt to rally the demoralized citizens and spark a revolution.This gripping dystopian novel offers remarkably prescient views of Germany's resurgence and the rise of fascism. A landmark of science fiction, Hastings' pioneering book was the precursor to Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis,' Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World,' and other visionary tales which came after it." - www.doverpublications.com

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction written by Peter Nicholls and published by Granada. This book was released on 1979 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book DYSTOPIA Boxed Set 18 Dystopian Classics in One Edition written by George Orwell and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 4059 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique collection of "DYSTOPIA Boxed Set: 18 Dystopian Classics in One Edition" has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. Contents: 1984 (George Orwell) Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) It Can't Happen Here (Sinclair Lewis) That Hideous Strength (C. S. Lewis) Iron Heel (Jack London) We (Yevgeny Zamyatin) Meccania the Super-State (Owen Gregory) Lord of the World (Hugh Benson) When The Sleeper Wakes (H. G. Wells) The Time Machine (H. G. Wells) The First Men in the Moon (H. G. Wells) Caesar's Column (Ignatius Donnelly) The Secret of the League (Ernest Bramah) City of Endless Night (Milo Hastings) Looking Further Backward (Arthur Dudley Vinton) The Heads of Cerberus (Francis Stevens) The Fixed Period (Anthony Trollope) Animal Farm (George Orwell)