Theodor Hertzka ~8 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 ('Freeland: A Social Picture of the Future'), hugely influential in its day, dramatizes his liberal economic utopia and inspired real colonization movements. Earnest, significant utopian SF. Read it for a founding work of economic utopianism, in the original German that stirred a genuine movement.

In its time

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

Reading it

~8 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).