Mór Jókai ~10 hr read

A Hungarian master imagines the coming century, flying machines, world war, and a utopia born from catastrophe. Part one.

Mór Jókai's 1872 novel 'The Novel of the Century to Come' is a sweeping national epic of future technology and politics, envisioning aerial warfare and a transformed world long before such things existed. The first part of one of Hungarian literature's great works of scientific romance. Read it for a visionary nineteenth-century future-history from one of Central Europe's towering storytellers.

In its time

Published in 1872, during the 1870s, under the sea and around the moon.

Reading it

~10 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).