Meccania, the Super-State
Author | : Owen Gregory |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2017-03-17 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781365831881 |
ISBN-13 | : 1365831884 |
Rating | : 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Download or read book Meccania, the Super-State written by Owen Gregory and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-03-17 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alternate History, Dystopian Science Fiction A day or two after he had been introduced to me I invited him to dinner and on this occasion we found much to talk about-chiefly European politics. At length, after we had finished a bottle of wine and a liqueur or two, he remarked that of all the countries he had visited in Western Europe he had been most impressed by Meccania. (He pronounced the word 'Mek-kah ́-nia.') My knowledge of Geography is not complete, I admit, but I thought I knew all the countries of Western Europe (the war has helped wonderfully to fill up certain gaps). I replied that I had never heard of such a country. "Probably not," he answered. "But it exists. And the proof of it is that I spent some five months there in 1970, and kept a journal of my experiences." "You mean 1870," I said. "No, 1970," he replied...