The Year 2440

The Year 2440
Title page, L'An 2440, rêve s'il en fut jamais (1772 London edition)
AuthorLouis-Sébastien Mercier
Original titleL'An 2440, rêve s'il en fut jamais
TranslatorWilliam Hooper
LanguageFrench
GenreScience fiction
PublisherVan Harrevelt
Publication date
1771
Publication placeFrance
Published in English
1772

L'An 2440, rêve s'il en fut jamais (literally, in English, The Year 2440: A Dream If Ever There Was One; but the title has been rendered into English as Memoirs of the Year Two Thousand Five Hundred or Memoirs of the Year 2500, and also as Astraea's Return, or The Halcyon Days of France in the Year 2440: A Dream) is a 1771 novel by Louis-Sébastien Mercier.

It has been described as one of the most popular and controversial novels of the 18th century, one of the earliest works of science fiction, and the first work of utopian fiction set in the future rather than at a distant place in the present.


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