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Issue Details: First known date: 1894... 1894 The Coming Terror, or, The Australian Revolution : A Romance of the Twentieth Century
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Sydney anarchist Samuel Albert Rosa has an international labor alliance use Panmort gas to appoint a beloved dictator who leads the nation into a golden age.

'Utopian economic and financial crashes, strikes, etc'. (Source : Miller and Macartney Australian Literature : a bibliography to 1938.)

Notes

  • Epigraph: If there be any law that makes many poor to make one rich, that suits not a commonwealth. - Oliver Cromwell.
  • This work has been digitised by the Reason in Revolt project.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Petersham, Marrickville - Camperdown area, Sydney Southern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: S. A. Rosa , 1894 .
      Printed by John McNally
      Extent: 35p.
      Description: illus., port.
      Note/s:
      • Ferguson 15067a
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: S. A. Rosa , 1895 .
      Alternative title: Oliver Spence, the Australian Caesar, or, The Coming Terror
      Link: U14563PANDORA Archive Sighted 12/04/2011
      Extent: 35p., [1] leaf of platesp.
      Edition info: Cheap edition
      Description: illus., port.
      Note/s:
      • Ferguson 15068
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Works about this Work

Futures without Financial Crises : Utopian Literature in the 1890s and 1930s Verity Burgmann , David Milner , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Continuum : Journal of Media & Cultural Studies , vol. 23 no. 6 2009; (p. 839 - 853) 'Australian utopian fiction of the 1890s and 1930s reflects the traumatic impact of the economic crises of these decades and expresses desire to avoid the insecurities of capitalism. There are significant differences, however, in the imaginative reach of the utopias devised in the 1890s and those formulated in the 1930s. In Australia in the 1890s, the possibilities for progress and perfection were varied. Unionism, socialist legislation, the formation of ideal communities based on socialist or anarchist principles, militant forms of protest, attempts to inaugurate direct rather than mere representative democracy were some of the various strategies pursued in this decade that promised a better world. The methods depicted in the utopian writings of the 1890s for achieving ideal societies are as diverse as the real politically radical currents of the time. By the 1930s, the starkly singular conception of emancipation offered by the Soviet model dominates the imagination of those who wrote of better futures. The utopian literature of the 1930s is thus diminished by its fascination with an alleged model of perfection in the real world. The differences between the utopian literatures of two decades undergoing similar upheavals confirms Darko Suvin's observation that the parameters of utopian imagination are produced by the particular radical milieux around those who dare to dream of alternatives.' (Author's abstract)
As for Federation Graham Stone , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Notes on Australian Science Fiction 2001; (p. 82-84)
— Review of The Coming Terror, or, The Australian Revolution : A Romance of the Twentieth Century S. A. Rosa , 1894 single work novella
Visions of the Nineties Nan Bowman Albinski , 1987 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , May no. 20 1987; (p. 12-22)
New Arcadias : Co-Operative Movements of the Nineties Nan Bowman Albinski , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: Margin , no. 15 1985; (p. 19-24)
Books for the People : The Coming Terror Prometheus , 1895 single work review
— Appears in: The Worker , 16 February 1895; (p. 1)
— Review of The Coming Terror, or, The Australian Revolution : A Romance of the Twentieth Century S. A. Rosa , 1894 single work novella
Books for the People : The Coming Terror Prometheus , 1895 single work review
— Appears in: The Worker , 16 February 1895; (p. 1)
— Review of The Coming Terror, or, The Australian Revolution : A Romance of the Twentieth Century S. A. Rosa , 1894 single work novella
As for Federation Graham Stone , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Notes on Australian Science Fiction 2001; (p. 82-84)
— Review of The Coming Terror, or, The Australian Revolution : A Romance of the Twentieth Century S. A. Rosa , 1894 single work novella
New Arcadias : Co-Operative Movements of the Nineties Nan Bowman Albinski , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: Margin , no. 15 1985; (p. 19-24)
Futures without Financial Crises : Utopian Literature in the 1890s and 1930s Verity Burgmann , David Milner , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Continuum : Journal of Media & Cultural Studies , vol. 23 no. 6 2009; (p. 839 - 853) 'Australian utopian fiction of the 1890s and 1930s reflects the traumatic impact of the economic crises of these decades and expresses desire to avoid the insecurities of capitalism. There are significant differences, however, in the imaginative reach of the utopias devised in the 1890s and those formulated in the 1930s. In Australia in the 1890s, the possibilities for progress and perfection were varied. Unionism, socialist legislation, the formation of ideal communities based on socialist or anarchist principles, militant forms of protest, attempts to inaugurate direct rather than mere representative democracy were some of the various strategies pursued in this decade that promised a better world. The methods depicted in the utopian writings of the 1890s for achieving ideal societies are as diverse as the real politically radical currents of the time. By the 1930s, the starkly singular conception of emancipation offered by the Soviet model dominates the imagination of those who wrote of better futures. The utopian literature of the 1930s is thus diminished by its fascination with an alleged model of perfection in the real world. The differences between the utopian literatures of two decades undergoing similar upheavals confirms Darko Suvin's observation that the parameters of utopian imagination are produced by the particular radical milieux around those who dare to dream of alternatives.' (Author's abstract)
Visions of the Nineties Nan Bowman Albinski , 1987 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , May no. 20 1987; (p. 12-22)
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