Dr. Barton travels to the year 3927 where the world’s population has grown to an unimaginable eight billion, but fear not! The utopian society has eliminated waste from poor economic systems of the past, and all inhabitants now work (by choice) for but one month per year.
—based on Frank J. Bleiler
We crossed over the centre of Lake Victoria and so northward, parallel to the well “trained” banks of the Nile. The Sudd region had been drained and embanked, thus saving the evaporation of millions of tons of water annually.

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  1. The Time-Journey of Dr. Barton: An Engineering and Sociological Forecast Based on Present Possibilities, as by John L. Hodgson, serialized in The Star Review, April to December 1929.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by John Hodgson as by John L. Hodgson
  2. first separate publication.
    The Time-Journey of Dr. Barton: An Engineering and Sociological Forecast Based on Present Possibilities by John Hodgson (John Hodgson [publisher], 1929).
    3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by John Hodgson

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  1. Category—We estimate this to be a long novela, just under 25,000 words, based on 73 pages of text (which doesn’t include 16 pages of illustrations) times 350 words per page, minus about 1,000 words for at least 33 three-line chapter headings.
  2. Tags—not yet complete.
  3. Variants—We believe that some of the following information (quoted from Utopian Literature in English: An Annotated Bibliography from 1516 to the Present) may be from a preface to the 1929 separate publication of The Time-Journey.

    1. The manuscript had been circulated privately in 1927 and part was given as a public lecture in London the same year.

    2. Also published as a serial with the author given as John L. Hodgson in The Star Review (England) 2.4 - 12 (April - December 1929): 188-93, 279-84, 330-39, 398-405, 448-55, 510-20, 595-98, 634-51, 720-35 (NN).

    3. His The Great God Waste [. . .] 1933 (L) reprints parts of The Time Journey (5-7 and 82-100).

    We don’t count the 1927 private circulation as a publication. And we don’t know whether the 1929 separate volume was published before, during, or after the serialization in The Star Review. However, a review of the 1929 volume did not appear until the 31 May 1930 issue of Nature, so we have designated the serial as the debut. 

    Nevertheless, we decided that it has the look and feel of a separate work more so than a serial, so we italicize the title.