Vilhelm Bergsøe 36 min read

A visionary 'flying-fish' vessel named Prometheus carries its crew into a fantastic future, an early Danish dream of technological wonder.

Vilhelm Bergsøe's 1869 'fantasy of the future' ('The Flying-Fish Prometheus') is a pioneering work of Danish science fiction, imagining marvelous machines and coming ages. Inventive, forward-looking period SF. Read it for a founding Scandinavian scientific romance, dreaming of the future from the mid-nineteenth century.

In its time

Published in 1869, during the 1860s, verne launches the voyages extraordinaires.

Reading it

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