SINCLAIR, Upton (Beall)

SINCLAIR, Upton (Beall)
(1878-1968)
   US writer known primarily for his work outside the sf field, particularly for his novels of social criticism, including The Jungle (1905). His most notable sf work is the comedy The Millennium: A Comedy ofthe Year 2000 (1914 Appeal to Reason; in 3 vols 1924), based on a play, in which the survivors of a DISASTER recapitulate the economic stages described by the Marxist theory of history. In Prince Hagen (1903; play 1921) a Nibelung ruler acknowledges that US capitalists are his superiorsin avarice. The Industrial Republic: A Study of the America of Ten Years Hence (1907) is a utopian fantasy. Roman Holiday (1931) is an interestingand curiously bittersweet account of a delusional timeslip in which an industrialist discovers parallels between his own time and a nascent Roman republic which cannot anticipate the indignities that history has in store for it. US's lighter political satires include the documentary future histories I, Governor of California, and How I Ended Poverty (1933) and We, People of America, and How We Ended Poverty: A True Story of theFuture (1934). He also wrote a number of religious fantasies in which MESSIAH figures are frustrated by the injustices of the modern world: They Call me Carpenter (1922) is a delusional fantasy starring Jesus; Our Lady (1938) is an effective timeslip story which brings the Blessed Virgin to contemporary California; and What Didymus Did (1954 UK; vt It Happened to Didymus 1958 US) is a dispirited account of the failure of a reluctantmiracle-worker commissioned by Heaven to spread spiritual enlightenment in an unappreciative world.
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   Other works: Plays of Protest (coll 1912) includes Prince Hagen and a play featuring a female noble savage, The Naturewoman; Co-op: A Novel of Living Together (1936 UK); The Gnomobile(1936), a juvenile filmed by Disney as The Gnome-Mobile (1967); A Giant's Strength: A Three-Act Drama of the Atomic Bomb (1947), a post- HOLOCAUST play.

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