Gregory Casparian 1 hr 39 min read

A twentieth-century romance at a young ladies' seminary, featuring, remarkably, a same-sex love story and a magical transformation.

Gregory Casparian's 1906 novel is a genuine curiosity of early science fiction: a forecast of the 20th century's history and technology wrapped around a romance between two women, resolved by a fantastic transformation. Sincere, strange, and startlingly ahead of its time. Read it for a fascinating, little-known piece of speculative fiction from the century's dawn, remarkable for far more than its future-history.

In its time

Published in 1906, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

1 hr 39 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).