![]() The book concentrates most of its attention on the social and technological advances of the ninety-sixth century and some of Macnie's forecasts and predictions are notably prescient. He learns from Utis and others about the structure and institutions of this future society. He is introduced to the massive city of "Nuiorc," the future development of New York City and he travels with his guide to Utis's home in the suburbs. The novel begins with a scene in which the first-person narrator undergoes an episode of "mesmerism," or hypnosis, and wakes up in the far future he has suddenly passed "from the nineteenth to the ninety-sixth century." In the company of a friend and guide named Utis Estai, the narrator begins to learn the nature of this future world. The Diothas has been called "perhaps the second most important American nineteenth-century ideal society" after Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward ( 1888). The Diothas or, A Far Look Ahead is a 1883 utopian novel written by John Macnie and published using the pseudonym " Ismar Thiusen". ![]()
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