The Retreat from Utopia
- by Wallace West
- Short Story
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “The Retreat from Utopia” by Wallace West, Astounding Stories, March 1934.
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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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1930 to 1939: home time of the story: 1934
- Circa AD 2100 to 2199: the time of “utopia”: 2175
- Timeline Models
- Time Travel Methods
- Hypnosis, Mental Powers, Potions, and Drug-Induced Travel: a drug that frees the “time sense”
- Themes
- Future Is “Down”: “All life is drifting down the river [. . .]”
- Fictional Tags
- Groupings
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- “The Retreat from Utopia” by Wallace West, Astounding Stories, March 1934.