Alfred Döblin ~11 hr read

A vast, hallucinatory epic of the coming centuries, of de-icing Greenland, taming nature, and the monstrous forces humanity unleashes.

Alfred Döblin's 1924 'Mountains Seas and Giants' is a landmark of German expressionist science fiction, a torrential, visionary chronicle of future technological hubris and its catastrophic consequences. Dense, strange, and hugely ambitious, it stands among the century's boldest works of speculative literature. Read it for a towering, phantasmagoric future-history from the author of 'Berlin Alexanderplatz.'

In its time

Published in 1924, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

~11 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).