Novella
The Time-Journey of Dr. Barton: An Engineering and Sociological Forecast Based on Present Possibilities
- by John Hodgson
- serialized in The Star Review, April to December 1929
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.
