The Milltillionaire, or Age of Bardization is a work of utopian fiction written by Albert Waldo Howard, and published under the pseudonym "M. Auberré Hovorré.
"[1][2] The book was one element in the major wave of utopian and dystopian literature that characterized the final decades of the nineteenth century.
Some novels took a short-term look ahead in time, from 25 years, as in Peck's The World a Department Store, to a century or more (Brooks's Earth Revisited, or Bellamy's Looking Backward).
Howard similarly took a long though indefinite prospective view, setting his utopia at an unspecified time in the distant future.
The people live in twenty enormous circular cities, which have radii of a hundred miles; there are triple-decker highways and monorails.
In 1894, the year before Howard issued his first edition of The Milltillionaire, King Gillette had published his first utopian work, The Human Drift.
[7] In that book, Gillette proposed an enormous metropolis near Niagara Falls for tens of millions of residents, surrounded by a preserved natural environment.