INTO THE DARK HOUR – 18 Dystopia Classics in One Volume
Eighteen Classic Visions of Social Control, Technocratic Futures, and Anti-Utopian WarningBy Ayn Rand, Jack London, H. G. Wells, Owen Gregory, Hugh Benson, Ignatius Donnelly, Ernest Bramah, Milo Hastings, Arthur Dudley Vinton, Francis Stevens, Anthony Trollope, E. M. Forster, Fritz Leiber, Richard Stockham, Irving E. Cox, Samuel Butler
Length116h 9m
About this audiobook
Into the Dark Hour gathers eighteen formative dystopian narratives into a capacious map of modernity's anxieties. Ranging from satirical speculation and imperial nightmare to scientific romance, political allegory, social prophecy, and proto–science fiction, the volume traces how imagined futures expose the pressures of the present. Its selection moves through bureaucratic domination, technological coercion, engineered conformity, class conflict, ecological and civilizational collapse, and the precarious status of individual freedom. Especially striking are the collection's competing visions of rationally planned societies: at once promises of reform and warnings of dehumanization. The contributors form an unusually wide transatlantic and international constellation of nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers. Alongside major practitioners of the scientific romance and the social novel stand popular fabulists, political satirists, and innovators of fantastic fiction. Their varied careers connect the anthology to debates surrounding industrialization, empire, eugenics, socialism, mass society, war, and the expanding authority of the modern state. Read together, these voices reveal dystopia not as a single genre formula but as a changing literary response to historical disquiet. This volume is recommended for readers of speculative fiction, intellectual history, and literary studies alike. It offers a valuable opportunity to compare styles, arguments, and imagined orders within one book, while illuminating the roots of later dystopian classics. Its juxtapositions invite sustained reflection on how fiction makes political and ethical futures thinkable.
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GenreDystopia, Science Fiction
Length116 hrs 9 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 5, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1H. G. WELLS - The Dystopian Trilogy (Annotated)
2Anthem (Ayn Rand)
3Part One
4Part Two
5Part Three
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6Part Four
7Part Five
8Part Six
9Part Seven
10Part Eight
11Part Nine
12Part Ten
13Part Eleven
14Part Twelve
15Iron Heel (Jack London)
16Foreword
17Chapter I. My Eagle
18Chapter II. Challenges
19Chapter III. Jackson’s Arm
20Chapter IV. Slaves of the Machine
21Chapter V. The Philomaths
22Chapter VI. Adumbrations
23Chapter VII. The Bishop’s Vision
24Chapter VIII. The Machine Breakers
25Chapter IX. The Mathematics of a Dream
26Chapter X. The Vortex
27Chapter XI. The Great Adventure
28Chapter XII. The Bishop
29Chapter XIII. The General Strike
30Chapter XIV. The Beginning of the End
31Chapter XV. Last Days
32Chapter XVI. The End
33Chapter XVII. The Scarlet Livery
34Chapter XVIII. In the Shadow of Sonoma
35Chapter XIX. Transformation
36Chapter XX. A Lost Oligarch
37Chapter XXI. The Roaring Abysmal Beast
38Chapter XXII. The Chicago Commune
39Chapter XXIII. The People of the Abyss
40Chapter XXIV. Nightmare
41Chapter XXV. The Terrorists
42Meccania the Super-State (Owen Gregory)
43Introduction
44Note on Personal Names
45Chapter I. I Become a Foreign Observer
46Chapter II. Bridgetown, Tour No. 1
47Chapter III. Introduction to Mecco
48Chapter IV. Professor Proser-Toady’s Lecture
49Chapter V. Culture in Mecco
50Chapter VI. More Culture in Mecco
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