Only diplomats are taught to read and write. People no longer write, but communicate via telephone. Fabra, a journalist and a main force behind the creation of Spain’s first news agency, envisions a world where people no longer read but listen to all their news via paid in-home or street phonographs. On the Planet Mars by Nilo María Fabra (Spain, 1890). When they return to the nuclei, the man goes to the men’s sleeping area and the woman gets a marriage chamber where her husband can only go by request.Ģ. Women can be married for as long as they wish, and can separate easily at the same Festival of the Adults (hopefully away from all the marriages). The women are then given the young men’s file and they decide who to marry at the Festival of the Adults. The young men submit a formal request to a council of elders when they see someone they like. When their bodies develop, young women are presented at a Festival of Virgins in a kind of talent show. In the social nuclei, men and women sleep separately. People live in sparkling, safe, portable, and sometimes floating homes called social nuclei along with their local workers guild. Carnal pleasures are of limited use and sexual love isn’t a “frenzy of anguish and jealousy.” The rare case of crime is a result of mental disorders which barely exist.
Neighborly aliens of our solar system also communicate with humans via telegraph. Telegraph and trains link all parts of the globe like one big city.
He cites a philosophy called Providentiality, which sounds like Communism enhanced with literal brainwashing, all based on “moral science.” Racial differences literally disappear. A treatise on what the author, an inventor and philosopher, thought the future would be like. The Distant Future by Juan Nepomuceno Adorno (Mexico, 1862).
Each story is preceded by a short biography.ġ. The 27 were selected to represent different authors and different “eras” of Latin American science fiction. This post will briefly describe the 27 short stories in the book without spoilers except for the first two essay-type stories. The previous post covered the introduction of the Cosmos Latinos anthology edited by Andrea L.
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