Project Gutenberg 2025-07-20 Public domain in the USA. 470 Sweven, Godfrey 1845 1935 Brown, J. Macmillan (John Macmillan) Limanora : $b the island of progress $aNew York :$bG. P. Putnam's Sons, $c1903. Tim Lindell, Laura Natal and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "Limanora : the island of progress" by Godfrey Sweven is a utopian speculative novel written in the early 20th century. It presents a hidden island civilization devoted to scientific, ethical, and physiological “progress,” told through a castaway narrator who is examined, rehabilitated, and educated by its inhabitants, including the once-exiled Noola and wise “proparents.” The opening of this work follows the narrator’s awakening in a radiant crystalline chamber, where his senses are enhanced and he is introduced to Limanora’s ethos: character measured by instruments, creative surgery and medicated atmospheres to refine nature, and an absolute devotion to truth, humility, and progress. He undergoes education by dream-stimulation and “somnology,” learns of weekly character testing, and hears how Noola earned readmission. Detailed chapters describe Limanoran rest, sleep, and flight technologies (light irelium wings, body lightening, electric couches), their preference for solitude over gregarious schooling, and an education designed to prevent atavism and accelerate advancement. Finally, after years of preparation he is deemed ready to visit Fialume, the “valley of memories,” and travels there by winged craft, awed and fearful of the heights as his serene companion guides him toward the island’s great archive and graveyard. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/limanoraislandof00browrich/page/n7 20190627014958sweven 1903 US Reading ease score: 60.5 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Science fiction Utopias -- Fiction Islands of the Pacific -- Fiction PR Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Novels 1338201 2025-07-30T08:35:48.866225 text/html 1311191 2025-07-20T09:51:32 text/html 1962009 2025-07-30T08:36:03.241148 application/epub+zip 1958470 2025-07-30T08:35:51.304195 application/epub+zip 741146 2025-07-30T08:35:50.083262 application/epub+zip 2686072 2025-07-30T08:36:12.531614 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 2599957 2025-07-30T08:36:01.935150 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1254993 2025-07-30T08:35:47.104236 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 1235109 2025-07-20T09:51:32 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14397 2025-07-30T08:36:12.695573 application/rdf+xml 8727 2025-07-30T08:35:50.344205 image/jpeg 1629 2025-07-30T08:35:50.210158 image/jpeg 2745875 2025-07-30T08:35:49.134159 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 en.wikipedia