Fuller, Alvarado M
Entry updated 21 April 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1851-1924) US inventor, "Indian fighter" and author whose sf novel, A.D. 2000 (1890; vt Back to Life (A.D. 2000): A Thrilling Novel 1911), wakes its protagonist (see Sleeper Awakes), who has been preserved inside a replica of the Statue of Liberty, in the Utopian culture of the year 2000, significantly the same year that the protagonist of Edward Bellamy's already hugely influential Looking Backward (1888) awakens. After a successful Invasion of Canada at the beginning of the twentieth century, a single party rules North America, and electrical inventions (after a great disaster with "aluminum bronze", electricity has become the chief source of power) dominate the exiguous storyline, which does come to a climax with the discovery of the North Pole. [JC]
Lieutenant Alvarado Mortimer Fuller
born Providence, Rhode Island: 1851
died Topeka, Kansas: January 1924
works
- A.D. 2000 (Chicago, Illinois: Laird and Lee, Publishers, 1890) [illus/W Bretsnyder: hb/]
- Back to Life (A.D. 2000): A Thrilling Novel (Chicago, Illinois: Laird and Lee, Publishers, 1911) [vt of the above: hb/]
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