![]() ![]() Nothing could have been more successful than our efforts to live alone during the thirty years. Set in the Republic of Britannula, a fictional island near New Zealand in the year 1980, its narrated by the countrys president, Neverbend, who as his name implies, sticks to enforcing 'The Law' even as aging citizens begin to resist it. The great doctrine of a Fixed Period was received by them at first with ridicule, and then with dismay but it was undoubtedly the strong faith which we of Britannula had in that doctrine which induced our separation. There was, no doubt, a special cause with us which did not exist in Australia, and which was only, in part, understood by the British Government when we Britannulists were allowed to stand by ourselves. A satirical dystopian novel first published anonymously in six instalments in Blackwoods Magazine in 1881-82 and in book form in 1882. Indeed, in that respect it simply followed the lead given her by the Australias, which, when they set up for themselves, did so with the full co-operation of England. But it had its period of separation from the mother country, though never of rebellion,-like its elder sister New Zealand. ![]() 1882 Dystopian Science Fiction, alternate historyIt may be doubted whether a brighter, more prosperous, and specially a more orderly colony than Britannula was ever settled by British colonists. ![]()
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