Arend Fokke Simonsz 1 hr 17 min read

A reverie carries the dreamer forward to the year three thousand, imagining what the distant future may hold for mankind.

Arend Fokke Simonsz's 1792 Dutch work ('The Coming Year Three Thousand: A Reverie') is an early speculative meditation on the far future. Thoughtful, visionary period SF. Read it for a late-eighteenth-century Dutchman's dream of the millennium to come, a pioneering flight of futurist imagination.

In its time

Published in 1792, during the Pre-1800, voyages to the moon, subterranean worlds, and philosophical utopias, the deep roots of the imaginative tradition, from kepler and cyrano to the enlightenment.

Reading it

1 hr 17 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).