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described the novel as "highly imaginative work, one of the classics of early pulp fantastic fiction", commenting that despite simplistic characterization, "the cynical anti-authoritarianism" in the description of the imagined future culture "is refreshing." Bleiler also noted that the novel's
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in an edition of 1,563 copies. It was the first book published by Polaris Press. A scholarly reprint edition was issued by Arno Press in 1978, and a mass market paperback by
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wrote "Those who insist on the close reasoning and the satirical wit of modern science fiction will find surprising amounts of both here."
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called it "perhaps the first science fantasy to use the alternate time-track, or parallel worlds, idea."
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praised the novel as "a slightly dated but still originally imaginative and acutely satiric story."
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The novel concerns people who, after inhaling a grey dust, are transported to a future totalitarian
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The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998
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in 1919, and it was first published in book form in
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Index


Francis Stevens
Science fiction
Polaris Press
Hardback
OCLC
3102548
science fiction
Francis Stevens
The Thrill Book
1952
Polaris Press
Carroll & Graf
Philadelphia
Groff Conklin
Boucher
McComas
P. Schuyler Miller
Everett F. Bleiler
Philip K. Dick
Damon Knight
ISFDB bibliography
Galaxy Science Fiction
F&SF
Astounding Science Fiction
In Search of Wonder
Chalker, Jack L.
Clute, John
Peter Nicholls
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

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