Note: As first published, about 25 pages with 83 formal footnotes, apparently without subheadings (Amazon "Look Inside" variably omits some pages); signed "Franklin Rosemont" over flushleft "Chicago, Groundhog Day, 1990"

Synopsis: Biographical, critical, and historical--suggesting that Rosemont's editorial task was light.   The first half concludes (p15 as first published) with the observation that Bellamy, in the sequels to Looking Backward that revised his model of utopia, "also resumed--and in many ways brought to fruition--certain adventurous lines of inquiry elaborated in his pre-utopian science-fiction, mystery and fantasy tales."   The second half elaborates with reference to the tales collected here and asserts in conclusion, "The stories collected in this volume provide the key to his dream of a world made livable."