A. K. Ruh 3 hr 50 min read

Gazing down the endless clock of the ages toward the twenty-third century, a visionary foresees new generations of mankind rising and falling like the seasons.

A. K. Ruh's 1800 German work ('Garlands Around the Urns of the Future') is an early Romantic utopian meditation on humanity's coming ages, cast in lyrical, prophetic prose. Ornate, visionary period SF. Read it for a turn-of-the-nineteenth-century dream of the distant future, wreathed in Romantic imagination.

In its time

Published in 1800, during the 1800s, the gothic and the first scientific romances.

Reading it

3 hr 50 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).