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What kind of world did Jules Verne and his son Michel envision a thousand years in the future? One that, in many ways, wasn't that far off from life in our own time. This story, first published in 1889 (and later revised twice) is filled with air travel, billionaire publishers who control...

In the Year 2889 is an 1889 short story published under the name of Jules Verne, but now believed to be mainly the work of his son Michel Verne, based on his father's ideas. Little though they seem to think of it, the people of this twenty-ninth century live continually in fairyland. Surfeited as they are with marvels, they are indifferent in presence of each new marvel.