Epigraph:
The whole island, you know, was one enormous
hotel, complex beyond explaining, and on the
other side there were miles of floating hotels,
and huge floating stages to which the flying
machines came. The called it a Pleasure City.
Of course, there was none of that in your
time - rather, I should say, is none of that
now. Of course. Now! - yes.
H.G. Wells
A dream of Armageddon, 1901
