THE YEAR OF MIRACLE: A TALE OF THE YEAR ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED. London, Glasgow, Manchester, and New York: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1891. Small octavo, pp. [1-6] [1] 2-148 [149-154: ads], original pictorial white wrappers printed in green, brown, white and black. First edition. "Science fiction story of the year 1900, of a plague that wipes out much of the British population, and of a mysterious storm which eliminates the scourge." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 119. "Fanatical socialist spreads the germs of a plague in London. Eventually an ideal state emerges." - Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 17. This paperbound shilling shocker is Hume's most imaginative SF novel and is among his scarcest books. Blackford, et al., Strange Constellations: A History of Australian Science Fiction, p. 226. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1141. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 119. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 598. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 45. Bleiler (1978), p. 105. Reginald 07604. Not in Lewis or Sargent. Topp, Victorian Yellowbacks & Paperbacks, 1849-1905 I, p. 413. Not in Wolff. Covers dusty and soiled, spine panel darkened, chip from upper fore-edge corner of front wrapper with loss of parts of three letters of the title. Formerly, the Spectrum copy. A rare book. (#170191).
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