On the other hand, the bright vision of the future has been directly stated in science fiction concerned with projecting ideal societies -- science fiction, of course, is related, if sometimes distantly, to that utopian literature optimistic about science, literature whose period of greatest vigor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia.

In 1904, he also wrote a novel, Born Again, clearly inspired by the popular Utopian fantasy Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy, an early harbinger of the metaphysical turn his career would take with the theory of Lawsonomy.

The 1888 novel Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy depicts a fictional planned economy in a United States c. the year 2000 which has become a socialist utopia.

Edward Bellamy ( March 26, 1850 – May 22, 1898 ) was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, a Rip Van Winkle-like tale set in the distant future of the year 2000.

A turn to utopian science fiction with Looking Backward, 2000-1887, published in January 1888, captured the public imagination and catapulted Bellamy to literary fame.

Although Bellamy claimed he did not write Looking Backward as a blueprint for political action, but rather sought to write " a literary fantasy, a fairy tale of social felicity ," the book inspired legions of inspired readers to establish so-called Nationalist Clubs, beginning in Boston late in 1888.

He set to work on a sequel to Looking Backward entitled Equality, attempting to deal with the ideal society of the post-revolutionary future in greater detail.

* Looking Backward, 2000-1887.

* " How I Came to Write Looking Backward ," The Nationalist ( Boston ), vol.

), Looking Backward, 1988-1888: Essays on Edward Bellamy.

* Elizabeth Sadler, " One Book's Influence: Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward " The New England Quarterly, Vol.

* Looking Backward ( 1888 ) by Edward Bellamy

Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward ( 1888 ) envisions the world of 2000 as interlinked with tubes for delivering goods, while Michel Verne's An Express of the Future ( 1888 ) questions the sensibility of a transatlantic pneumatic subway.

Other science fiction works of the period, including Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and the later Metropolis, dealt with similar themes.

One classic example of such a utopia was Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward.

* Looking Backward ( 1888 ) by Edward Bellamy.

* Edward Bellamy published Looking Backward.

* List of sequels to Looking Backward

" Race, Culture, and Communications: Looking Backward and Forward at Cultural Studies.

* Edward Bellamy, author, most known for 1888's Looking Backward

* Bare, D. M. Looking Eighty Years Backward and a History of Roaring Spring, PA. Findlay, Ohio: College Press, 1920.

Heinlein may have come up with the term himself, but there are earlier citations: a piece in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1889, used the term in reference to Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward: 2000 – 1887 and other works ; and one in the May, 1900 issue of The Bookman said that John Uri Lloyd's Etidorhpa, The End of the Earth had " created a great deal of discussion among people interested in speculative fiction ".

Some like Edward Bellamy in Looking Backward outlined other possible political and social frameworks.

Howard read widely, including Edward Bellamy's 1888 utopian novel, Looking Backward, and Henry George's economic treatise, Progress and Poverty, and thought much about social issues.

The first Western texts on revolutionary social theory available in Japan were mostly on anarchism, but Nosaka also enjoyed Edward Bellamy's utopian novel, Looking Backward.

* Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward, 2000-1887.

Wyman had been toying with the design of a futuristic building described in Edward Bellamy's science fiction novel and social commentary, Looking Backward: From 2000-1887 ( chapter 10 ).

In 1888, Edward Bellamy penned Looking Backward: 2000-1887, a hugely influential utopian novel with socialist themes that outsold all but two books of the era.

Looking unto God, the Prophet Isaiah wrote these blessed words almost three thousand years ago: `` Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee ''.

Looking at the stream, Valmiki said to his disciple, " Look, how clear is this water, like the mind of a good man!

" Machine Gun ", the instrumental title track from the band's debut album, became a staple at American sporting events, and is similarly featured in many films, including Boogie Nights and Looking for Mr. Goodbar.

From the above properties an important feature arises: Looking at two triangles ABD and BCD with the common edge BD ( see figures ), if the sum of the angles α and γ is less than or equal to 180 °, the triangles meet the Delaunay condition.

Looking at its north to south orientation, it is shaped like an inverted T, about long and 6. 5 kilometres wide.

Looking upon the wagons he declared “ Joseph my son is still alive.

His most commercially successful recent film is 2009's Looking for Eric, featuring a depressed postman's conversations with the ex-Manchester United football star, Eric Cantona ( played by Cantona himself ).

A short film concerning Bath FC is part of the DVD issue of " Looking for Eric ".

In June 2009, Loach, Paul Laverty ( writer ) and Rebecca O ' Brien ( producer ) pulled their film Looking For Eric from the Melbourne International Film Festival, where the Israeli Embassy is a sponsor, after the festival declined the withdraw their sponsorship.

Looking like a delicate woven bag above the woven cotton wick, the mantle is a residue of mineral materials ( mostly thorium dioxide ) which is heated to incandescence by the flame produced by the wick.

Looking down Loch Long, which is a sea loch

“ Now let us understand the exact meaning of the expression historical Judaism … Looking at Judaism from a historical point of view, we become convinced that there is no one aspect deep enough to exhaust the content of such a complex phenomenon as Judaism … Accordingly, Torah-less Judaism … would be an entirely new thing and not the continuation of something given …

The professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame Alvin Plantinga criticises it, and the Emiritus Regius Professor of Divinity Keith Ward suggests that materialism is rare amongst contemporary UK philosophers: " Looking around my philosopher colleagues in Britain, virtually all of whom I know at least from their published work, I would say that very few of them are materialists.

Looking at C2, just before Q2 turns on the left terminal of C2 is at the base-emitter voltage of Q1 ( V < sub > BE_Q1 </ sub >) and the right terminal is at V < sub > CC </ sub > (" V < sub > CC </ sub >" is used here instead of "+ V " to ease notation ).

In a 1951 symposium discussing psychiatrist Benjamin Karpman's paper " The Sexual Psychopath ," psychiatrist Emil Gutheil said, " Looking back upon my own experience with so-called psychopaths, I find one characteristic they all have in common, and that is their infantilism.

System Shock is a first-person action-adventure video game developed by Looking Glass Technologies and published by Origin Systems.

* Looking up keys is faster.

* Looking up data in a trie is faster in the worst case, O ( m ) time, compared to an imperfect hash table.

Another adaptation, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, was produced by Joseph Shaftel Productions ( distributed by Fox-Rank productions ) in 1972, and is felt by many to be the most faithful adaptation to the original novel, with the exception of the omitted scene with the Cheshire Cat ( Roy Kinnear ) replaced by Tweedledum and Tweedledee ( in a scene which remains faithful to their respective scene from Alice Through the Looking Glass ).

Looking at Beckett's entire œuvre, Mary Bryden observed that " the hypothesised God who emerges from Beckett's texts is one who is both cursed for his perverse absence and cursed for his surveillant presence.