Writing at the end of the nineteenth century, Bird imagines the United States of 1999, its flag carrying eighty-five stars as Canada, Mexico, Cuba and the republics of Central and South America join the Union. Chapters on the American colossus and the Cuban question settled sit beside airship weddings and other inventions. Its confident expansionism and racial attitudes are those of 1899.
A curious period forecast for readers interested in early utopian fiction and turn-of-the-century American ambition. Download the free EPUB.