Robert Heymann 1 hr 37 min read

A prophet of the future spots a purple glow descending in a straight line toward Earth, the red comet that no naked eye can yet see, but which will change everything.

Robert Heymann's 1909 German novel opens on a scientist's dire warning to a skeptical American journalist, launching a tale of cosmic catastrophe. Vivid, imaginative early German SF. Read it for a period scientific romance of impending doom and the man who saw it coming.

In its time

Published in 1909, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

1 hr 37 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).