Napoleon of Notting Hill

G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) was an English author, poet, critic, and newspaper columnist known for his brilliant, epigrammatic paradoxes. His best-known character is the priest-detective Father Brown, featured in over fifty stories published between 1910 and 1936, who solves mysteries and crimes thanks to his understanding of spiritual and philosophic truths; and his best-known novel is The Man Who Was Thursday (1908), a metaphysical thriller. In addition to The Napoleon of Notting Hill, his first novel, he wrote several other near-future satires of England.Madeline Ashby is the author of the Machine Dynasty series and the novel Company Town, as well as a contributor to How to Future: Leading and Sense-Making in an Age of Hyperchange. She has developed science fiction prototypes for Changeist, the Institute for the Future, the Smithsonian Institution, SciFutures, Nesta, the World Health Organization, the World Bank, the Atlantic Council, and others.

"Unquestionably a satirical masterpiece."—Los Angeles Review of Books“A strange social satire. . . . [and] a fascinating study of arrogance and folly, of progress and tradition and, oddly, of human nature itself.”—Fortean Times

• Series Foreword ixIntroduction: Dystopias Are Problems Plus Time xvMadeline AshbyBook II Introductory Remarks on the Art of Prophecy 3II The Man in Green 9III The Hill of Humor 31Book III The Charter of the Cities 43II The Council of the Provosts 55III Enter a Lunatic 69Book IIII The Mental Condition of Adam Wayne 87II The Remarkable Mr. Turnbull 103III The Experiment of Mr. Buck 115Book IVI The Battle of the Lamps 135II The Correspondent of the "Court Journal" 151III The Great Army of South Kensington 163Book VI The Empire of Notting Hill 189II The Last Battle 205III Two Voices 215