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A Hancock County grand jury Feb. 9 and 10 indicted three men accused by the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency’s Downeast Division of fentanyl trafficking last November.
Niall Harrison reviews three early-20th-century science fiction novels published as part of the MIT Press’s Radium Age series....
In 1902, Liang Qichao, a reformist intellectual of the late Qing dynasty, wrote a futuristic story called “A Chronicle of the Future of New China.” In the unfinished manuscript, he depicts Shanghai hosting the World Fair in 1962 (“Confucius year 2513”), on the fiftieth anniversary of a successful reform movement. By then, he imagines, China has developed a multiparty system