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The Pleasures of a Futuroscope Paperback – 20 Aug. 2005

by Lord Dunsany (Author), S. T. Joshi (Editor)
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    204 pages
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    Hippocampus Press
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    20 Aug. 2005
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    13.97 x 0.64 x 21.59 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0976159287
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hippocampus Press
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 20 Aug. 2005
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 204 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0976159287
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0976159285
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 263 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 0.64 x 21.59 cm
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  1. S. T. Joshi

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    S. T. Joshi (Seattle, WA) is a freelance writer, scholar, and editor whose previous books include Documents of American Prejudice; In Her Place: A Documentary History of Prejudice against Women; God’s Defenders: What They Believe and Why They Are Wrong; Atheism: A Reader; H. L. Mencken on Religion; The Agnostic Reader; and What Is Man? And Other Irreverent Essays by Mark Twain.

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  • 川流桃桜
    4.0 out of 5 stars 晩年のダンセイニが書いた「SF」!?
    Reviewed in Japan on 9 May 2005
    Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase
    まさかダンセイニがこんな本を、と云うのが最初に読んだ時の正直な感想。実はこの本の存在は友人に知らされて実際に買ってみるまで全く知らなかった。何せこの版が正真正銘の「初版」である。
    内容は、未邦訳の他の作品にも出て来るメテリィと云う発明家が発明した「未来鏡」と云うガジェットが出て来るのだが、彼の友人で引退したジャーナリストである語り手が、これを使って未来世界の有り様を見物すると云うもの。物語は、恐らくは核戦争によって科学技術文明が壊滅した後の新石器時代に暮らす、或る一家に焦点を合わせている。動物やジプシー等との闘いがあったりはするが、基本的に至って平々凡々(名前からして「ジョー」だの「ケイト」だのである)、日々の生活の糧を得、衣食住に悩み、成長し、結婚し、また新しい家族を作ると云った具合。
    この手の未来ものの傑作としてはウェルズやロンドン等が直ぐ様思い浮かぶが、文体の所為もあるだろうが、彼等の様な強烈なる文明批判的な視点はダンセイニには薄い。何の野心も持たぬ文人が、単に自分の老後の愉しみの為に、丁度テレビでも見る具合に「未来鏡」を覗く―――実に淡々としたものである(この辺は恐らくはダンセイニ自身の晩年の生活の一端が窺える)。静かなる老年の境地とでも言おうか、文明に対して正面から闘いを挑むよりも、唯ひたすらにこの世界の人の営みの有り様を黙って凝っと眺めているだけの様な不思議な軽さが漂う、そんな作品である。
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  • Michael R. Broschat
    5.0 out of 5 stars A fitting end to a writing career
    Reviewed in the United States on 19 May 2004
    Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase
    Dunsany (pronounced "dune-SANE-y") started publishing just after the turn into the 20th century. He began with poetry, then moved to plays (stimulated by a challenge from WB Yeats), short stories, and-in 1922-his first novel. Don Rodriguez is a romance that takes place several hundred years ago. Futuroscope is a romance that takes place several hundred years from now. The manuscript for this book was discovered only a couple years ago, long after the author's death in 1957.
    The story is that our author-the narrator-has had loan of a marvelous device by a rather disinterested inventor. This device works much like a television set, the difference being that it sees into the future. And with two dials (completely analog, of course), you can adjust where the 'scope is looking and at what time in the future. The narrator warns that the pictures gets dim too much after the time of this story (about 2600 AD), so don't build your hopes too high. The narrator decides to concentrate on the area right around where he lives (in Kent, England), and casts about to see what time period looks interesting. He soon sees what appears to be a nuclear holocaust, and centuries of devastation. Gradually, life comes back, and-strangely enough-it is just like life probably was about 5,000 years ago. Fortunately for us (and the narrator), English is still spoken. Eventually, he finds a small family living within a mile of where he the narrator currently lives, and he follows their lives for a few weeks. This exercise completely captivates him, and his own life becomes simply an observation of some future events, events not exactly unromantic and unadventurous. Some things never change.
    Dunsany's point is a life-long point (he would die a couple years after writing this book)-the modern age (symbolized by metal in this book) has robbed man of his true happiness. Not exactly a rare point of view among Brits (and, especially, those with titles), but no less ardently felt for being shared.
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  • Turner Morgan
    4.0 out of 5 stars None of the reviews below relate to the book.
    Reviewed in the United States on 31 January 2004
    Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase
    I believe I had this read to me when I was young, and remember very much enjoying it- the synopsis supplied in the item description seems to mesh with my recollections. I know it was SOME Dunsany that I haven't been able to find, and time-travel seemed to play into it... However, I distinctly look forward to reading it and discovering that it's still not a Lovecraft book. I imagine the confusion of reviews happened because the editor is very well-known for editing Lovecraft anthologies and miscellania.
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