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The Begum's Fortune , also published as The Begum's Millions, is an 1879 novel by Jules Verne, with some elements which could be described as utopia and others which seem clearly dystopia. It is remarkable as the first published book in which Verne was cautionary and to some degree pessimistic about the development of science and technology. (Verne's very first book, Paris in the 20th Century, was very pessimistic in this respect - but for that reason it was rejected by the publishers and was... full article at wikipedia
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