The New Utopia (in Diary of a Pilgrimage (and Six Essays) coll 1891 2010 ebook) is a sarcastic Satire whose narrator visits the twenty-ninth century via a Sleeper Awakes transition and finds a State-controlled socialist nightmare of compulsory uniformity which at one point anticipates Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" (October 1961 F&SF): "when a man is much above the average size and strength, we cut one of his legs or arms off, so as to make things more equal we lop him down a bit, as it were." The whole thing proves to be a dream (see Clichés).
In addition, he wrote a few relevant short stories. He is of sf interest as editor of The Idler (which see) from its launch in February 1892, initially with the owner Robert Barr and solo from August 1895 until his resignation in November 1897. (1859-1927) UK author and editor best known for humorous writing, in particular the Thames-centred boating travelogue Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) ( 1889).
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