Ignatius Donnelly ~6 hr read

A visitor to the glittering, doomed New York of 1988 witnesses a vast underclass rise against the plutocracy in an orgy of destruction.

Ignatius Donnelly's 1890 novel is a landmark dystopia, a fierce populist prophecy of a future America split between decadent oligarchs and a brutalized mass, building to apocalyptic revolution. Enormously influential and darkly prescient. Read it for a foundational work of dystopian and revolutionary SF, still startling in its rage and vision.

In its time

Published in 1890, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

~6 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).