Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887

In Looking Backward, the future begins with a dream. Julian West falls asleep in the year 1887 and awakens in the year 2000 to find a transformed America—one without poverty, greed, or war. Industry has become cooperative, equality reigns, and technology serves all. Both utopian vision and sharp social critique, Bellamy’s novel imagines a world remade by reason and fairness, challenging readers to ask: what would it take to get there?