Unknown author 3 hr 27 min read

A fifteen-year-old boy of the year 2010 accidentally steals a monoplane, and shows us the state of flying-sport a century hence.

This 1910 Dutch children's book by Kees Valkenstein imagines aviation in the far-off year 2010 through the misadventures of young Jan Drie. A charming period piece of early Dutch juvenile SF, forecasting a future the author would never see. Read it for delightful turn-of-the-century speculation about the flying world of a hundred years on.

In its time

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

Reading it

3 hr 27 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).