A newspaper reporter from 2175 describes his strict, puritan world where nobody is happy because nothing ever happens, and even the criminals off in Borneo refuse to rejoin that society, so the story’s 1934 narrator visits the future to set things right.
Michael Main
You twentieth-century folks don’t know how lucky you are.

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  1. “The Retreat from Utopia” by Wallace West, Astounding Stories, March 1934.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Wallace West