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Issue Details: First known date: 1987... 1987 A Week in the Future: Prologue
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Ljungdahl explores the extent to which this novel of ideas draws on Clapperton's Scientific Melioration. She highlights the social changes outlined in A Week in the Future, but notes that the optimistic solutions Spence finds for society's problems are only superficially dealt with.

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    y separately published work icon A Week in the Future Catherine Helen Spence , 1889 Z824264 1889 single work novel science fiction

    'Emily Bethal is dying. The doctors give her two years at best. It will be two years of increasing pain and dependence. It is probably the dependence that Emily fears the most. She is independent, spirited and wilful. She has strong opinions and she knows the way the world works ... but she also knows how it should work. Is the deal worth it? Yes, she will avoid the two years of suffering and has traded it for for one week of living in the future. And the future she will see? The bright shiny wonderful and miraculous world of 1988. Yes 100 years into her own future takes her back to our recent past. See the wonders that Emily sees as she experiences a world that she just knows must exist for the betterment of all man ... and womankind.'

    Source: 2010 Chimaera edition

         Sydney : Hale and Iremonger , 1987     pg. 7-17
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