Sue Greenleaf 4 hr 49 min read

A scientist arrives from Kansas City to Chihuahua, having discovered how to distill a wondrous liquid from the sun's rays, an occult romance of Mexico and a coming new age.

Sue Greenleaf's 1906 novel fuses invention, reincarnation, prophecy, and even the annexation of Mexico into an ambitious occult scientific romance. Strange, sprawling, fervent period SF. Read it for an eccentric 1900s vision where solar science and mysticism reshape a continent.

In its time

Published in 1906, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

4 hr 49 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).