Wonder, William
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Pseudonym of US author Thomas Kirwan (1829-1911), whose Utopia, Reciprocity (Social and Economic) in the Thirtieth Century; The Coming Cooperative Age: A Forecast of the World's Future (1909), casts its twentieth-century protagonist, via an unexplained form of Time Travel, a millennium hence, where New York presides benignly over a mostly rural land, with good-humoured socialist precepts willingly accepted. These include a Eugenic control over reproduction, the death of Religion, and women modestly prominent (see Women in SF). Under his own name, Kirwan wrote nonfiction, some volumes being instructive about electricity. [JC]
Thomas Kirwan
born Massachusetts: 1829
died 1911
works
- Reciprocity (Social and Economic) in the Thirtieth Century; The Coming Cooperative Age: A Forecast of the World's Future (New York: Cochrane Publishing Company, 1909) [hb/]
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