Description: The Pleasures of a Futuroscope by Lord Dunsany (Author) Hippocampus Press; First Ed edition Thus, 2003. Hardcover / dustjacket Lord Dunsany, Irish master of fantasy, was the author of more than a dozen novels, hundreds of short stories, poems, and essays, and dozens of plays. And yet, his last major work, The Pleasures of a Futuroscope, has remained unpublished until this edition. In this powerful and moving novel, written in 1955, a futuroscope--a device that allows a viewer to see into the near or distant future--reveals an awful fate for humanity: a nuclear holocaust has destroyed nearly all human life on the planet. The great city of London is now merely an immense crater, filled in with water from the Thames. The pitiful remnants of humanity have been reduced to a Stone Age existence. The narrator, obsessively looking through the futuroscope, focuses upon the plight of a single family in their struggles to survive and fend off the many enemies, both animal and human, that surround them. When one of their number is kidnapped by a band of gypsies, we can only wonder at her fate in this brave new world of the distant future. Gripping, horrifying, touching, and fascinating, The Pleasures of a Futuroscope shows that Lord Dunsany retained his literary powers undiminished to the end of his life.
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Publisher: Hippocampus Press
Publication Year: 2003
Topic: Science Fiction / General
Book Title: Pleasures of a Futuroscope
Number of Pages: 200 Pages
Language: English
Genre: Fiction
Author: Lord Dunsany
Format: Hardcover
