Signal A Running Record of Findings from the Internet / October 28, 2026

Gulliver at 300, Seen Through a 1933 Pulp Story Set in the Year 3000

Tom Dillon, writing on the University of Liverpool's special collections blog, marks the 300th anniversary of Gulliver's Travels, first published on 28 October 1726, by turning to science fiction. Leslie F. Stone's "Gulliver, 3000 A.D.", printed in Wonder Stories in May 1933 with illustrations by Frank R. Paul, strands a space captain on Mars, where he is enslaved by six-inch green aliens and fights their enemies, six-inch copper aliens he names Lilliputians. Dillon reads the story as a critique of racism, notes that Swift both criticised colonialism and invested in the South Sea Company, and launches the library's digital exhibition Gulliver's Travels: Before and Beyond.

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