{"product_id":"the-aerial-valley-9781612274355","title":"The Aerial Valley","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Brian Stableford | Victor Hugo | Jacques Fabien\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Hollywood Comics\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Hollywood Comics\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Science Fiction - Collections \u0026amp; Anthologies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFive utopian fantasies: * The Aerial Valley (1810) proves that a utopian society can only maintain stability if it remains technologically limited and isolated from outside influences; it is a sensitive challenge to the philosophy of progress as an instrument of perfectibility. * The Year 2800 (1829) bases its anticipations of future improvement on bold social reforms. * Paris in Dreams (1863) echoes the then-ongoing endeavors of Baron Haussmann, who was busy remodeling the city in accordance with his own utopian design. * Victor Hugo's The Future was the first chapter of the great author's introduction to a guide-book produced for visitors to the Exposition Universelle of 1867. * Gustave Marx's Love a Thousand Years Hence (1889) is a satire of the glut of utopian accounts of future Paris, being elevated to the capital of a unified Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46483786662039,"sku":"9781612274355","price":1702.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781612274355.jpg?v=1766320796","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-aerial-valley-9781612274355","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}