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Introduction From December 1880 to late February 1881, when Anthony Trollope was sixty-seven, he wrote The Fixed Period, his only futuristic novel. It is a satirical science fiction (SF) and utopian work critical of state-enforced euthanasia, based on the fictional South Pacific island of Britannula located near New Zealand in the year 1980. Although not well-received at the time (1) and criticised as a 'failure' (2), this still rather obscure piece remains intriguing. Firstly, as far as utopian literature is concerned, it is an example of a distinct New Zealand-based utopian tradition, a comparatively rare late nineteenth century capitalist utopia, and a pigmentopia, 'a utopian discourse with a strong or prevailing ethnocentric/racist world view'. (3) Secondly, as a SF piece, it is of interest for the nature of Trollope's future predictions. Thirdly, the forceful female characters in the story reinforce the conclusions of Victoria Glendinning's gendered biography of Trollope, whose books she says 'are full of women who are equal, if not superior, to men.' (4) Last but not least, just as ancient Rome in Trollope's The Life of Cicero (1880) was about 'Victorian England in disguise', (5) like a great deal of SF and utopian literature The Fixed Period, although set in a distant and future land, is really about Trollope's late Victorian world. As such, a postcolonial reading of The Fixed Period sees Trollope's supposedly quintessential 'roast-beef kind of Englishness' (6) somewhat, but not entirely, critical of British imperialism.

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