An Anglo-American Alliance
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An Anglo-American Alliance: A Serio-Comic Romance and Forecast of the Future is a 1906 novel written and illustrated by Gregory Casparian and published by Mayflower Presses. A reviewer for
Author
Little is known about Gregory Casparian (1856–1942).
Setting and plot
The novel is set in the future of 1960 and depicts a world that is geopolitically broadly similar to that of 1906, with the US and the UK as the world's major colonial powers. Casparian stated in the preface that the purpose of the book was to show the desirability of a world government, to which he saw the establishment of an Anglo-American federation as a first step.[3] There are limited technological advances, such as prenatal sex discernment, suspended animation and a cure for laziness (which benefits the "negroes of the Southern States", according to the novel). Telescopes have shown intelligent life on other planets, which is described in interludes unconnected to the rest of the novel.[1]
The novel follows the romance of two young upper-class women, the Briton Aurora Cunningham and the American Margaret MacDonald, who attend the same ladies' seminary in Cornwall and pursue a secret romantic relationship. After graduation, Margaret has herself
Significance
Reviewing the novel in 1990, Everett F. Bleiler described it as a curiosity and as an "eccentric novel with an early description of surgical sex changes".
References
- ^ a b c d e Nevins, Jess (7 October 2011). "The First Lesbian Science Fiction Novel, Published in 1906". io9. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
- ^ "Casparian, Gregory". Science Fiction Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2021-03-13.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-87338-416-2.
External links
- An Anglo-American Alliance at Open Library
- An Anglo-American Alliance title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- An Anglo-American Alliance at Project Gutenberg
An Anglo-American Alliance public domain audiobook at LibriVox
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