Owen Gregory

Owen Gregory is the pseudonym attached to Meccania: The Super-State, a dystopian novel first published in 1918. Reference works describe the author as an unidentified UK writer, which helps explain why so little firmly documented biographical information survives.

Meccania is Gregory’s notable claim to attention today. The novel pictures a rigid, bureaucratic super-state and is often discussed as an early example of dystopian and speculative fiction, written in the shadow of the First World War.

Because the author’s real identity has not been clearly established in reliable sources I could confirm, most introductions focus less on personal life and more on the book’s unusual foresight and lasting interest to readers of political satire and early dystopian fiction.