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More an imaginary history of the future than a work of fiction. The sinking of the Maine is avenged by an international fleet of aerial dreadnoughts which destroy Spain. The author is convinced that the United States “in the years to come, will govern the entire Western Hemisphere” from a new Washington situated in central Mexico. Emphasis is on technological advances and social reform (rather Puritanical overall – more dystopian than utopian). In chapter 26 the “Negro problem” is solved in 1975 – after much violence – by the purchase – authorized by Congress – of three northern provinces in the State of Venezuela, a “reservation” to which the “elated” Black Americans emigrated shortly thereafter and “thrived well.”
