THIUSEN, Ismar

   Pseudonym of Scottish-born US writer and academic John Macnie (1836-1909), whose UTOPIA The Diothas, or A Far Look Ahead (1883; vt A Far Look Ahead, or The Diothas 1890; vt Looking Forward, or The Diothas 1890 UK), set several millennia hence, was prolific with its suggestions of technological progress while presenting a not untypically regimented picture of human relations, which are especially constricting for women - who, if unmarried, go out only with chaperons. Unusually, the book's protagonist and narrator is himself a native of a future time (a few centuries hence, which may explain the strangeness of his name, Ismar Thiusen), and travels from that point into the FAR FUTURE where the mainaction takes place.

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   See also: SLEEPER AWAKES.