The reprinting of NEQUA has been a real learning situation for me.  Since it is a reprint it does not fit the requirements of a lot of reviewers. Reviews are the way to reach those persons, most interested in a specific type of book. 

Finding the people who will get a review into a publication where it will be read by the segment of the public I have in mind is doubly hard. I want NEQUA to find it’s way into the academic and public libraries.

Why,       ------because I have developed certain suppositions about the motives behind the writing and printing by the original copyright holders.  I feel that the ideas they exposed are still very valid and thus need to be available for readers in a form other than microfilm.  The setting of the story and method of introducing the ideas allows for a person with an avowed dislike of SOCIALISM and SOCIALIST ideas to perhaps read the book without shutting their mind, as many of us are trained to do in college classes, which investigate social and economic systems other than democracy and capitalism.

I am also positive that there are quasi-religious ideas available for a reader of NEQUA that were written into the book. Ideas which lay dormant because they are not part of the main stream of American life.  Some ideas which my eyes and intellect could perceive, but many more that a lack of background and experience on my part is kept hidden from my intellect.  “Hints” that due to societal changes or a lack of guided suggestion, would be read by me, with no ability to cross reference since the origins of  some material or methods of explaining them has changed drastically since the book was originally printed. In other words the common everyday “knowledge of events” which the average man would carry in a  life time in the 1900’s, was very different than my view looking backward from 2015. Only by deconstructing the book with a look out for catch phrases or cliches from 1900 could one actually see the origins of  the book and the intent of the authors.

I found the “mother-love” concept by accident. The names and descriptions of the characters and place names which appear in NEQUA are also not happenstance.

My conclusions as described were partially born out in  statements which appear in a review written by Michelle Yost. She finds several notations which she feels are derived from Mary Baker Eddy and her belief system. I have read some Christian Science material but I missed the references she found. Her review appears in the current issue of  Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction which is published in Liverpool, England.