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Alvarado M. (Alvarado Mortimer) Fuller
1851–1924
A soldier, inventor, and early science-fiction writer, Fuller is best remembered for imagining a far-future America in A. D. 2000. His work blends late-19th-century adventure with speculative ideas about technology and society.
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A. D. 2000
by Alvarado M. (Alvarado Mortimer) Fuller
About the author
Alvarado M. Fuller was an American author, army officer, and inventor born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1851. Reference sources on early science fiction identify him as Lieut. Alvarado Mortimer Fuller and note that he died in Topeka, Kansas, in January 1924.
He is chiefly known for A. D. 2000, published in 1890, an early future-war and speculative novel that helped place him on the margins of science-fiction history. Some bibliographic sources also list Back to Life (A.D. 2000): A Thrilling Novel as a later variant title of the same work.
Beyond writing, Fuller is also described in reliable genre and bibliographic records as an inventor, and local historical writing links him with military service at the Presidio in San Francisco. Little widely documented biographical detail survives, but the outline that remains is vivid: a career soldier with technical interests who turned his imagination toward the future.