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.
DEBUT
“The Time-Journey of Dr. Barton: An Engineering and Sociological Forecast Based on
Prestne Possibilities,” serialized in The Star Review,April to December
1929.
VARIANTS
Debut. “The Time-Journey of Dr. Barton: An Engineering and Sociological Forecast Based on Prestne Possibilities,” serialized in The Star Review,April to December 1929.
We haven’t yet mapped out the time travel itinerary.
INDEXER NOTES (SPOILERS!)
Release—According to a preface in the 1929 chapbook: The major portion of this manuscript was circulated privately during 1927. It also, during that year, formed the basis of a public lecture given in London by the present Editor. In 1929 it was published as a serial in “The Star Review.” As we all know, <a href='https%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldcat.org%2Ftitle%2Fstar-review%2Foclc%2F224323863'>The Star Review</a> was “Official organ of the <a href='https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FOrder_of_the_Star_in_the_East'>Order of the Star</a>.” The Dates are from <em><a href='https%3A%2F%2Fopenpublishing.psu.edu%2Futopia%2Fcontent%2Ftime-journey-dr-barton-engineering-and-sociological-forecast-based-present-possibilities'>Utopian Literature in English: An Annotated Bibliography from 1516 to the Present</a></em>: <em>The Star Review</em> (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)<br />
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.
1 English variant