Meda: A Tale of the Future

Very good condition. Quite uncommon. This copy inscribed by the author without signature, on a presentation leaf bound in. "[A 5575 CE Utopia] in which large-headed brainy Scotonians are fed by ambient electricity, possess antigravity, and represent the end of a long (and detailed) world-history, including the come-caused disaster of a shift in Earth's axis. In a curious anticipation of satellite communications, messages are exchanged between different parts of Earth by projecting them on to the moon. After learning all of this, the protagonist begins to suffer erotic longings, and, like a good Scotsman, quickly steers the dream to its conclusion. He marries, incautiously reveals that he had a wife in his nineteenth-century existence, and is tried for violating the iron rule of lifelong monogamy irrespective of a spouse's death. Condemned to this society's direst punishment - Men or women that are guilty of this terrible crime are allowed to float away alone into endless space - he duly awakens in his own time." [SFE, Clute] The present copy is bound with bevelled-edged boards in green cloth, with AEG. Some rubbing to the cloth, a couple of owner's names to the front pastedown, evidence of a plate removed from the front endpaper, a blindstamp, some toning and a bit of looseness to the binding.…