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Annals of the Twenty-Ninth Century: or, The Autobiography of the Tenth President of the World-Republic is a science fiction novel written by Andrew Blair, and published anonymously in 1874.Andrew Blair, Annals of the Twenty-Ninth Century: or, The Read More..

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Description	Annals of the Twenty-Ninth Century: or, The Autobiography of the Tenth President of the World-Republic is a science fiction novel written by Andrew Blair, and published anonymously in 1874.Andrew Blair, Annals of the Twenty-Ninth Century: or, The Autobiography of the Tenth President of the World Republic, 3 Volumes, London, Samuel Tinsley, 1874.Blair's work is one of a group of early science fiction novels that are now little known, but were influential in their own time—group that includes Edward Maitland's By and By (1873), Percy Greg's Across the Zodiac (1880), and John Jacob Astor IV's A Journey in Other Worlds (1894).Ignatius Frederick Clarke, The Tale of the Future, From the Beginning to the Present Day: An Annotated Bibliography of Those Satires, Ideal States, Imaginary Wars and Invasions, Coming Catastrophes and End-of-the-World Stories, Political Warnings and Forecasts, Inter-Planetary Voyages and Scientific Romances—All Located in an Imaginary Future Period—that have been Published in the United Kingdom Between 1644 and 1976, London, Library Association, 1978.Everett Franklin Bleiler, The Checklist of Fantastic Literature: A Bibliography of Fantasy, Weird and Science Fiction Books Published in the English Language, Chicago, Shasta Publishers, 1948. Blair tells an extravagant tale of a future age in which the peoples of the Earth have been united in a Christian "Mundo-Lunar Republic", and other planets in the solar system have been reached and their native inhabitants encountered.One modern critic has called Blair's book "a hodge-podge of interplanetary travel and super-scientific inventions" but also "a speculation of Stapledonian magnitude."George Locke, "Wells in Three Volumes? A Sketch of British Publishing in the 19th Century", Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 3 Part 3 (November 1976), pp. 282–6; see p. 283. In the view of another, Blair portrays "the union of science and religion...under the sign of a positivist Deism mixed up with various utopian socialisms, and progressing from one technological wonder to another."Darko Suvin, "Victorian Science Fiction, 1871–85: The Rise of the Alternative History Sub-Genre [sic]", Science Fiction Studies Vol. 10, No. 2 (July 1983), pp. 148–69; see p. 154. .
Description	Annals of the Twenty-Ninth Century: or, The Autobiography of the Tenth President of the World-Republic is a science fiction novel written by Andrew Blair, and published anonymously in 1874.Andrew Blair, Annals of the Twenty-Ninth Century: or, The Autobiography of the Tenth President of the World Republic, 3 Volumes, London, Samuel Tinsley, 1874.Blair's work is one of a group of early science fiction novels that are now little known, but were influential in their own time—group that includes Edward Maitland's By and By (1873), Percy Greg's Across the Zodiac (1880), and John Jacob Astor IV's A Journey in Other Worlds (1894).Ignatius Frederick Clarke, The Tale of the Future, From the Beginning to the Present Day: An Annotated Bibliography of Those Satires, Ideal States, Imaginary Wars and Invasions, Coming Catastrophes and End-of-the-World Stories, Political Warnings and Forecasts, Inter-Planetary Voyages and Scientific Romances—All Located in an Imaginary Future Period—that have been Published in the United Kingdom Between 1644 and 1976, London, Library Association, 1978.Everett Franklin Bleiler, The Checklist of Fantastic Literature: A Bibliography of Fantasy, Weird and Science Fiction Books Published in the English Language, Chicago, Shasta Publishers, 1948. Blair tells an extravagant tale of a future age in which the peoples of the Earth have been united in a Christian "Mundo-Lunar Republic", and other planets in the solar system have been reached and their native inhabitants encountered.One modern critic has called Blair's book "a hodge-podge of interplanetary travel and super-scientific inventions" but also "a speculation of Stapledonian magnitude."George Locke, "Wells in Three Volumes? A Sketch of British Publishing in the 19th Century", Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 3 Part 3 (November 1976), pp. 282–6; see p. 283. In the view of another, Blair portrays "the union of science and religion...under the sign of a positivist Deism mixed up with various utopian socialisms, and progressing from one technological wonder to another."Darko Suvin, "Victorian Science Fiction, 1871–85: The Rise of the Alternative History Sub-Genre [sic]", Science Fiction Studies Vol. 10, No. 2 (July 1983), pp. 148–69; see p. 154. .

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Name	Annals of the twenty-Ninth Century
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Authors	Andrew Blair(published anonymously)
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Language	English
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Pages	758 pp. (3-volume total)
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Publisher	Samuel Tinsley
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Pub_date	1874
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