Looking Further Forward An Answer to Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy

"Looking Further Forward" by Richard Michaelis is a late 19th-century examination of social and political concepts. Serving as a counterpoint, it analyzes the concepts of communism and societal changes introduced in "Looking Backward" by Edward Bellamy through an alternative societal model. The narrative starts as the main character, Julian West, wakes up in the year 2000 after sleeping for one hundred years, encountering a greatly changed society. Dr. Leete guides West through the new structure, in which the government manages businesses and production, and people use credit cards instead of money. As West gets used to this world, he begins to see issues that arise in lectures and through discussions around the ideas of freedom with figures like Mr. Forest; revealing unhappiness and dishonesty behind the apparent perfection, implying the heavy cost to personal freedom.