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  • Why is this in ISFDB?

    From Charles Packer@21:1/5 to All on Wed Oct 23 07:59:01 2024
    What qualifies this for the ISFDB? The Great Plan (1913) by Edith
    Huntington Mason. Also in the SF Encyclopedia where it is characterized as "marginally Near Future" (whatever that means) and summarized
    as "rich young American woman establishes a utopian enclave on
    the banks of the Rhine in Germany, with the intention of upraising
    German women to a status equal to men."

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  • From -dsr-@21:1/5 to Charles Packer on Wed Oct 23 08:19:22 2024
    On 2024-10-23, Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:
    What qualifies this for the ISFDB? The Great Plan (1913) by Edith
    Huntington Mason. Also in the SF Encyclopedia where it is characterized as "marginally Near Future" (whatever that means) and summarized
    as "rich young American woman establishes a utopian enclave on
    the banks of the Rhine in Germany, with the intention of upraising
    German women to a status equal to men."

    That sounds like it was set in the near future at the time it was written, which
    is now in our past, much like all those thrilling tales of the postapocalyptic future of 2000AD. The summary certainly sounds like SF to me.

    -dsr-

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