Looking Further Forward by Richard C. Michaelis (or Looking Further Forward: An Answer to Looking Backward). work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. is German-born author in America for many years, whose Looking Further Forward: An Answer to Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy is a Sequel by Other Hands to Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward (1888) that mocks the socialist society presented in the original as a Dystopian nightmare on the verge of collapse; thought control is rife, and a revolution soon topples Bellamy's dream state.