Project Gutenberg 2024-01-05 Public domain in the USA. 102 Michaud, Alfred Charles 1876 1975 Michaud, A. C. 51006302 Our coming world $aPhiladelphia :$bWorld Publication Press, $c1951. Aaron Adrignola, Tim Lindell, Graeme Mackreth and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) "Our Coming World" by Alfred Charles Michaud is a philosophical novel written in the early 1950s. The book presents a narrative critique of contemporary human society through the lens of an extraterrestrial encounter, ultimately exploring themes surrounding economic systems, humanitarianism, and the potential future of mankind. The story follows Lieutenant Fred Balmore, a pilot who becomes embroiled in an extraordinary incident that leads him to a Martian civilization, where he learns about their advanced yet utopian lifestyle. At the start of the novel, the unnamed narrator encounters Fred Balmore during his daily walks, where he is struck by Balmore's melancholic demeanor on a park bench. Through patience and conversation, Balmore reveals the strange and surreal circumstances that led to his mental instability, stemming from a bizarre incident involving a Martian airship. As he begins to recount his experience aboard the Martian vessel, Balmore details the advanced technologies, social structures, and philosophical ideals of the Martian people, contrasting them sharply with the dysfunctions and injustices of life on Earth. The reader is thus invited to explore profound questions about humanity, morality, and what the world could become with a more humane economic system. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89097410054 20230228075443michaud 1951 US Reading ease score: 60.9 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Utopias HX Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Novels 401496 2025-07-28T15:14:39.227507 text/html 376099 2024-01-05T19:41:24 text/html 202268 2025-07-28T15:14:44.654541 application/epub+zip 202226 2025-07-28T15:14:40.115508 application/epub+zip 202227 2025-07-28T15:14:39.664487 application/epub+zip 298503 2025-07-28T15:14:48.190536 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 278011 2025-07-28T15:14:44.219475 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 366522 2025-07-28T15:14:38.623548 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 346639 2024-01-05T19:41:24 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15628 2025-07-28T15:14:48.326477 application/rdf+xml 6226 2025-07-28T15:14:39.763460 image/jpeg 1516 2025-07-28T15:14:39.712499 image/jpeg 172096 2025-07-28T15:14:39.267504 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog