Publisher's Synopsis
Unveiling a Parallel: A Romance is a feminist science fiction novel published in 1893. It is one of a large number of speculative fiction works from the early nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that are considered to be both utopian and dystopian fiction. In the story, the hero travels to Mars on an "aeroplane" a term that had been used in France, but this novel provided one of the earliest uses of the word in English. Interested in crafting a satiric commentary of their own society, the authors made their Mars and Martians strongly similar to Earth and human beings however women were much more liberated. Dystopian Classic Editions publishes works of dystopian and utopian literature that have survived through the generations and been recognized as classics. A dystopian society is an imagined society in which the people are oppressed, however the government propagandizes the society as being a utopia or a perfect society. Typical themes in dystopian literature include public mistrust, police states, and overall unpleasantness for the citizens. Authors of dystopian works strive to present a worst-case scenario and negative depiction of the way things are in the story so as to make a criticism about a current situation in society and to call for a change. Each Dystopian Classic Edition selected for publication presents such a story.
