City of Endless Night: 100 Year Anniversary Annotated Edition
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Milo Hastings
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"In the Berlin of 2151, 300 million people live underground. The city is in a state of perpetual war with the rest of the world, its besieged population locked beneath an impenetrable dome. Religion has been rewritten; information is controlled by the state; and breeding is governed by eugenics. But a ray of hope descends into the underworld when a young American chemist manages to infiltrate the subterranean society in an attempt to rally the demoralized citizens and spark a revolution. This gripping dystopian novel offers remarkably prescient views of Germany's resurgence and the rise of fascism. A landmark of science fiction, Hastings' pioneering book was the precursor to Fritz Lang's Metropolis, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, and other visionary tales which came after it." (doverpublications.com)
In the wake of World War I, Milo Hastings imagined a future in which the then newly established League of Nations and Weimar Republic had both collapsed. He described a theoretical scenario in which Germany would be ruled by a single man who had leveraged the forces of ethnonationalism, socialism, and religion to declare himself a god. Hastings mused that Germany would instigate a second world war in 1983, and that a radical breakthrough in weapons technology would cause that war to devolve into a stalemate. He reasoned that such a war would allow Germany’s dictator to seize absolute control over every aspect of society. Books would be banned, the family would be replaced by a breeding program aimed at creating a “super-race”, the Jewish problem would be solved once and for all, and Germany would aspire to cleanse the earth of the “mongrel peoples”.
Hastings’ pessimistic predictions turned out to be 40 years too optimistic.
©1920 Milo Milton Hastings (P)2020 Luke Boardman
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- Luke Boardman
- 28.12.2020
"Brave New World" + "Man in The High Castle" =CoEN
Written in 1919, "City of Endless Night" is the earliest authoritarian-dystopian novel that I am aware of, at least in the modern, "1984"/"Fahrenheit 451" sense of the genre. It's always dangerous to make a statement like that because there are roughly a quintillion books out there and maybe someone knows of one that is older. George Orwell wrote a book review of Zamyatin's "We" in which he described it as a unique, genre-defining dystopian novel and the probable inspiration for Huxley's "Brave New World." I guess Orwell wasn't aware of "City of Endless Night," because it deals with most of the same themes and was written a year before "We." It's hard to blame Orwell for overlooking it- there are after all, roughly a quintillion books out there, but if Orwell had only written a book review about Hastings' dystopian novel instead of Zamyatin's, "City of Endless Night" might have become standard high school reading for generations much as "Fahrenheit 451" did.
Hastings predicts that Germany will start a second world war in his novel. He foresees a German breeding program replacing the family and creating various subspecies/classes of humans as it strives towards a master race, the micromanagement of private life from caloric intake and body weight to clothing and haircut. Hastings envisions banned books, propaganda, and the strict control of information, a final solution for the Jews, and a charismatic dictator using the forces of ethno-nationalism to proclaim himself a god. Hastings imagines a future Germany obsessed with social-Darwinism that would strive to "cleanse the earth of the mongrel peoples."
"City of Endless Night" was originally published in six parts as a serialized story in a magazine from June to November, 1919. Hitler didn't stumble across the nascent German Workers' Party (he became the 55th member) in a Munich beer hall or record his first anti-Semitic comments until September of 1919. Hastings was so prescient, you could almost argue that he knew what Hitler was going to do... before Hitler did.
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