Paradise and Iron
Author: Miles J. Breuer
Published: 1930
eBook Creator: Pulpmeister
Topic: Science Fiction, Dystopia
Source: MobileRead
Miles J Breuer's only novel, published in 1930 in Hugo Gernsback's "Amazing
Stories Quarterly". It was subsequently revised by Jack Williamson as "The
Birth of a New Republic".
An altruistic scientific genius establishes an ideal colony on a Caribbean
island, dedicated to the finest in arts, and with the labour progressively
undertaken by more and more sophisticated machines.
Alas, the utopia has become dystopia, as a young visitor discovers.