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Another early example of this, although five years later in 1885, was Richard Jefferies' "After London". It basically created the conceit that many works of sci
by jhbadger 8y ago
Another early example of this, although five years later in 1885, was Richard Jefferies' "After London". It basically created the conceit that many works of science fiction used later -- the book is set in what appears to be a medieval society only for the reader to learn later that this isn't the past but the future after industrial civilization destroyed itself by pollution.
- lainga 8y agoWe wonder,—and some Hunter may express Wonder like ours, when thro' the wilderness Where London stood, holding the Wolf in chace, He meets some fragment huge, and stops to guess What powerful but unrecorded race Once dwelt in that annihilated place The other Ozymandias, Horace Smith, 1818 http://www.potw.org/archive/potw192.html http://www.potw.org/archive/potw192.html