Otto Witt 2 hr 13 min read

In a sweltering Berlin of the year 1950, an astronomer's death sets in motion a tale of a wondrous mirror, a mysterious will, and a world-changing invention.

Otto Witt's 1914 Swedish novel ('The Wonderful Mirror') is early Scandinavian science fiction from a pioneering popularizer of the genre. Inventive, forward-looking hard SF of its era. Read it for a period Swedish tale of scientific wonder set in a future the author reached toward with real imagination.

In its time

Published in 1914, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

2 hr 13 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).