Hayes, Jeff W
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1853-1917) US entrepreneur who introduced the telegraph to Portland, Oregon, in 1882, and most of whose works are nonfiction advocacies of life – viewed through the Utopian potentials of the region – in the Pacific Rim; he became blind before the end of the century. His sf book, Portland, Oregon, A.D. 1999 and Other Sketches (coll 1913), casts these speculations into the form of a genuine Utopia reflecting the influence of Edward Bellamy: Portland has been transformed by Technology into a modestly socialist paradise. Pleiades Club: Telegraphers' Paradise on the Planet Mars (1917 chap) is an afterlife fantasy set on Mars. [JC]
Jeff W Hayes
born Cleveland, Ohio: 1853
died Portland, Oregon: 1917
works
- Portland, Oregon, A.D. 1999 and Other Sketches (Portland, Oregon: F W Baltes and Co, 1913) [coll: pb/]
- Pleiades Club: Telegraphers' Paradise on the Planet Mars (Portland, Oregon: Multnomah Printing Co, 1917) [chap: pb/nonpictorial]
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