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eBook details
- Title: Anno Domini 2000: Woman's Destiny
- Author : Julius Vogel
- Release Date : January 16, 2015
- Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy,Books,Fiction & Literature,Historical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 424 KB
Description
"Anno Domini 2000: Woman's Destiny" is regarded as New Zealand's first science fiction novel. It was written by former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Sir Julius Vogel. It anticipated a utopian world where women held many positions of authority, and in fact New Zealand became the first country to give women the vote.
The novel describes the exploits of Hilda Fitzherbert, a 23-year-old former Undersecretary for Home Affairs, and then Imperial Prime Minister, in a future where the British Empire has achieved both female suffrage and become an Imperial Federation, apart from an independent Ireland. However, Sir Reginald Paramatta, a villainous Australian republican, has his eyes set on the abduction and wooing of Miss Fitzherbert...