Hodgson, John
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1881-1936) UK inventor and author, whose vision of various forms of Utopia via Time Travel, The Time-Journey of Dr. Barton. An Engineering and Sociological Forecast based on Present Possibilities (1929 chap), attractively posits a world delivered from excesses of Technology by a cadre of technocrats; The Great God WASTE (1933) is a less-fictionalized disquisition on some of the issues raised. [JC]
John Lawrence Hodgson
born Frizinghall, Bradford, Yorkshire: 1881
died Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire: 14 August 1936
works
- The Time-Journey of Dr. Barton. An Engineering and Sociological Forecast based on Present Possibilities (Eggington, Bedfordshire: John Hodgson, 1929) [chap: pb/]
- The Great God WASTE (Eggington, Bedfordshire: John Hodgson, 1933) [chap: pb/Greta Tolson]
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