Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov 1 hr 52 min read

In a domed city at the South Pole, a model society governed by total conformity is seized by a strange epidemic of contrariness.

Valery Bryusov's 1907 collection ('The Republic of the Southern Cross') is a landmark of Russian Symbolist science fiction, its title novella a chilling dystopia of a mind-plague undoing a perfectly ordered state. Strange, prophetic, unsettling. Read it for a foundational early dystopia from a master of the Russian fantastic, here in German translation.

In its time

Published in 1907, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

1 hr 52 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).