MECCANIA THE SUPER-STATE (Dark Dystopia) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Foreseeing the Future and Foretelling the Terror of a Totalitarian Nazi-Like RegimeBy Owen Gregory
Length8h 16m
About this audiobook
First published in 1918, MECCANIA THE SUPER-STATE is an early and striking work of dystopian fiction, cast in the form of a traveller's report on a rigorously organized future society. Its imagined nation is governed by surveillance, classification, compulsory efficiency, and an almost religious devotion to state power. Written in a sober documentary style rather than melodrama, the novel belongs to the anti-utopian tradition that would later include Huxley and Orwell, while retaining the Edwardian fascination with systems, machinery, and social planning. Owen Gregory wrote in the shadow of the First World War, when British readers were intensely alert to militarism, bureaucracy, propaganda, and the apparent triumph of the modern administrative state. Though little biographical detail is commonly foregrounded, Gregory's book clearly emerges from contemporary fears of Prussian discipline, technocratic rationalism, and the subordination of private life to national purpose. His fiction transforms political anxiety into speculative anatomy. This book is recommended to readers interested in the genealogy of dystopia, especially those who want to see how twentieth-century nightmares of total control were imagined before Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. It rewards patient readers with a chillingly systematic vision of dehumanization.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.
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GenreDystopia, Science Fiction
Length8 hrs 16 mins
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Publish dateMar 5, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1MECCANIA THE SUPER-STATE (Dark Dystopia) (Annotated)
10VII. A Meccanian Apostle
2Introduction
11VIII. The Mechow Festival
3Note on Personal Names
12IX. Meccanisation
4I. I Become a Foreign Observer
13X. Conversations
5II. Bridgetown, Tour No. 1
14XI. An Academic Discussion
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6III. Introduction to Mecco
15XII. The Latest Institution
7IV. Professor Proser-Toady’s Lecture
16XIII. Never Again
8V. Culture in Mecco
17Memorable Quotes
9VI. More Culture in Mecco
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