author
Alfred Charles Michaud
1876–1975
A little-known American writer of speculative fiction, he is remembered for a single 1951 novel that imagines a healthier, more humane society on Mars. His work uses science-fiction adventure to argue for social change and a better future.
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Our coming world
by Alfred Charles Michaud
About the author
Alfred Charles Michaud was a U.S. author born in Saint-André, Quebec, on December 25, 1876, and he died in Los Angeles, California, on May 22, 1975. The main work reliably connected to him is Our Coming World (1951), a novel often described as utopian or speculative fiction.
In that book, Michaud imagines Mars as a long-lived, socially advanced society set against the troubled condition of postwar Earth. Reference sources note that the story uses its interplanetary premise to explore political and economic ideas, making it as much a social thought experiment as an adventure tale.
He does not appear to have a large surviving public profile, but Our Coming World has kept his name alive in science-fiction and utopian-literature reference works. For readers interested in overlooked speculative fiction, he stands out as an example of a writer who used the genre to picture a fairer world.