author
Richard Michaelis
1839–1909
Best known for a sharp, imaginative reply to Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward, this German-born writer brought a journalist’s eye and an editor’s sense of argument to late-19th-century political fiction.
3 Audiobooks
Looking Further Forward An Answer to Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy
by Richard Michaelis
Kommunistinen yhteiskunta vuonna 2000 Jatkoa ja vastaus Edward Bellamyn romaaniin "Vuonna 2000"
by Richard Michaelis
Ein Blick in die Zukunft Eine Antwort auf: Ein Rückblick von Edward Bellamy
by Richard Michaelis
About the author
Richard C. Michaelis (1839–1909) was a German-American journalist, editor, and writer. Reliable reference sources describe him as German-born and active in America for many years, with work that crossed journalism and fiction.
He is chiefly remembered for Looking Further Forward: An Answer to Looking Backward (1890). The novel was written as a response to Edward Bellamy’s hugely influential Looking Backward, and later reference works note that Michaelis used it to challenge Bellamy’s socialist vision by imagining that ideal society as unstable and oppressive.
Bibliographic records also show other works by Michaelis, including Die Ansiedler am Cottonwood Flusse (1903). Although he is not widely known today, his writing remains of interest to readers of utopian and dystopian literature because it captures a lively political debate from the 1890s.