Theodor Hertzka ~9 hr read

In the highlands of Africa, idealists build Freeland, a model commonwealth founded on free access to land and capital, where none may profit from another's labor.

Theodor Hertzka's 1890 novel, hugely influential in its day, dramatizes his liberal economic utopia and inspired real-world colonization movements. Earnest, detailed, historically significant utopian SF. Read it for a founding work of economic utopianism, an English translation of a book that stirred a genuine movement.

In its time

Published in 1890, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

~9 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).