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Life In A Thousand World by William S. Harris was in my opinion one of his best works. The book describes Harris’ unique journey across the vast universe and the strange and beautiful humanoid life that he encounters . Of course the book is fictional; however, he addresses many of the social, political, and economical problems that existed in our world in 1905, many of which still exist today. The main problems touched upon in the book include monopolies, government control, education, religious morality and our place in the universe.
Each Chapter is a journey to a specific world, an allegory of it’s own and describes the unique culture, lifestyle, religion, government and population that inhabits it. Although he doesn’t cover all the world he visited in his transient dream of his, he does however highlight the important ones. Worlds were the rich rule the poor, worlds were people communicate with their minds, worlds where people have wings, and worlds where no one commits a crime. In the book he uses the terms “sinful, sinless, and millennial” to dichotomize the planets he visits and to rank the advancement of the civilizations. Although the lifeforms of the worlds are vastly different he always refers to them as “human” a term used loosely to describe sentient beings.
The book has many interesting features which makes it worth reading and others that simply make it irritating. One of the book’s best qualities is it’s unique science fiction theme that not only illuminates what some of our earlier thoughts of what aliens might be like, but also what other types of societies could have evolved, and how small our role in the universe really is. Additionally, Harris’ colorful imagination enthralls your curiosity when he talks about worlds of water and worlds of diamond. Harris also shines a light on what he envisioned heaven was, the multiverses of existence, and who the ultimate creator of the universe was.
The only criticisms I have toward the book do not lie in the scientific inaccuracies he makes, for he could not have know that planets like Jupiter do not have a solid surface or the fact that most solar systems have very few planets. My criticisms lie in his Christian Socialistic views that taint the imaginative experience of these extraterrestrial worlds. This can be seen throughout the book in the conclusions he makes regarding the success and failure of planets. He concludes that governments with the greatest religious power create the greatest civilizations and further falsely explains how the free market will enviably lead to monopolistic control and inequality. Additionally he often states that these alien citizens have a higher type of morality than that which is found in our world solely because of their religious devotion. But in his defense he was writing it for the general public of his day.
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Reader: Cori Samuel | Esther | Chris Chapman | Tammy Sanders | Lizzie Driver | Alex Buie | Leonie Rose
Language: English
This work is in the public domain because it was published before January 1, 1926.
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