Upsidonia (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Arthur Hammond Marshall
- First Published: 1915
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—utopia
- Time of Work: The early twentieth century
- Setting: The city of Culbut in the state of Upsidonia
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy, Utopian fiction
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Other worlds, Money, Caves
- Locales: Earth, alternate versions of
The Plot
While on a walking holiday, John Howard enters an unsafe cave and is cut off from the entrance by a rockfall. He goes deeper into the cave and finds another way out. He assumes that he is in the same England that he left behind, but when he tries to give sixpence to a tramp, he is threatened with arrest. By contrast, when a man attempts to relieve him of his watch and his money while he lies asleep, the act is construed by others as charity. He is in Upsidonia, where everyone longs to be desperately poor and wealth is despised.
Howard is saved from the vengeance...
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