Looking ackward Author:Edward Bellamy World Without War....On a night in 1887 Julian West,a young Boston insomniac, is put to sleep in his sound-proofed basement room by a hypnotist. Time passes-indeed, exactly 113 years , 3 mos & 11 days. And Julian West awakes, to his amazement, in the year 2000-to a wondrously utopian world of peace and plenty.