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Earth Revisited
''Earth Revisited'' is an 1893 utopian novel by Byron Alden Brooks.〔Byron A. Brooks, ''Earth Revisited'', Boston, Arena Publishing Co., 1893.〕 It is one entrant in the large body of utopian and speculative fiction that characterized the later 19th and early 20th centuries.〔Kenneth Roemer, ''The Obsolete Necessity, 1888–1900'', Kent, OH, Kent State University Press, 1976.〕〔Jean Pfaelzer, ''The Utopian Novel in America, 1886–1896: The Politics of Form'', Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1984.〕〔Matthew Beaumont, ''Utopia Ltd.: Ideologies of Social Dreaming in England 1870–1900'', Leiden, Brill Academic Publishers, 2005.〕
==Genre==
Brooks sends his protagonist from the late 19th century into the future to experience a vastly improved world. His novel is one of a stream of such books that appeared in the late 19th century. Edward Bellamy's ''Looking Backward'' (1888) was the most famous, popular, and influential of these; and ''Earth Revisited'' has been dismissively called "One of the stepchildren" of Bellamy's book.〔Everett Franklin Bleiler with Richard Bleiler, ''Science-Fiction: The Early Years'', Kent, OH, Kent State University Press, 1990; p. 86.〕 Yet Brooks's novel can be usefully compared to an earlier work in the genre, John Macnie's ''The Diothas'' (1883). Both books share some particular ideas (like communal food preparation for private homes); and the concept of reincarnation is fundamental to both, which is not typical of the utopian literature of the era as a whole.
Like many other utopian novels, ''Earth Revisited'' also verges on science fiction in its anticipation of future technologies. Notably, Brooks envisions contact with intelligent life on the planet Mars: topographic features are engineered as signals between the planets. (On the Earth, a large equilateral triangle, a hundred miles per side, is constructed in the Great Plains.)〔''Earth Revisited'', pp. 75-6, 95.〕 Brooks also foresees a vast land reclamation project that turns the Sahara Desert into a region of lakes and farmland.〔''Earth Revisited'', pp. 96, 240.〕
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