György Szemere 4 hr 36 min read

A Hungarian scientific romance imagining an affair, and a society, of the twenty-first century.

György Szemere's 1919 novel ('The Kont Affair') projects its drama into the coming century, a Central European entry in the wave of future-fiction that swept Europe in Wells's and Verne's wake. A period vision of tomorrow from the Hungarian tradition of the fantastic, written in the unsettled years after the Great War. Read it for a glimpse of how the twenty-first century looked from 1919 Budapest.

In its time

Published in 1919, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

4 hr 36 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).