Vinzenz Chiavacci 56 min read

A Viennese fantasy of the world's end, imagined in the year 1900 and told with the humorist's eye for how ordinary citizens meet the apocalypse.

Vinzenz Chiavacci's 1897 novel ('The End of the World: A Fantasy of the Year 1900') brings his gift for Viennese social comedy to a satirical post-apocalyptic vision. Wry, warm, socially observed German-language SF. Read it for a humorist's apocalypse, where the little people of Vienna face the last days.

In its time

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

Reading it

56 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Emil Ranzenhofer