Unknown author 1 hr 36 min read

A misanthropic doctor, taught by a great magician of Tibet, journeys to the world of Hesperos, a planet of immortals who live and die without any god.

'Antares Skorpios's' 1891 novel is a curious philosophical romance imagining a deathless society untroubled by religion. Strange, speculative, of its era. Read it for an unusual Victorian thought-experiment about immortality, godlessness, and what such a world would truly be like.

In its time

Published in 1891, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

1 hr 36 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).