Series Foreword ix
Introduction: Dystopias Are Problems Plus Time xv
Madeline Ashby
Book I
I Introductory Remarks on the Art of Prophecy 3
II The Man in Green 9
III The Hill of Humor 31
Book II
I The Charter of the Cities 43
II The Council of the Provosts 55
III Enter a Lunatic 69
Book III
I The Mental Condition of Adam Wayne 87
II The Remarkable Mr. Turnbull 103
III The Experiment of Mr. Buck 115
Book IV
I The Battle of the Lamps 135
II The Correspondent of the "Court Journal" 151
III The Great Army of South Kensington 163
Book V
I The Empire of Notting Hill 189
II The Last Battle 205
III Two Voices 215
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English author, poet, critic,
and newspaper columnist known for his brilliant, epigrammatic
paradoxes. His best-known character is the priest-detective Father
Brown, featured in over fifty stories published between 1910 and
1936, who solves mysteries and crimes thanks to his understanding
of spiritual and philosophic truths; and his best-known novel is
The Man Who Was Thursday (1908), a metaphysical thriller. In
addition to The Napoleon of Notting Hill, his first novel, he wrote
several other near-future satires of England.
Madeline Ashby is the author of the Machine Dynasty series and the
novel Company Town, as well as a contributor to How to Future-
Leading and Sense-Making in an Age of Hyperchange. She has
developed science fiction prototypes for Changeist, the Institute
for the Future, the Smithsonian Institution, SciFutures, Nesta, the
World Health Organization, the World Bank, the Atlantic Council,
and others.
"Unquestionably a satirical masterpiece."
—Los Angeles Review of Books
“A strange social satire. . . . [and] a fascinating study of
arrogance and folly, of progress and tradition and, oddly, of human
nature itself.”
—Fortean Times
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