Lauri Haarla 2 hr 6 min read

In a grim vision of the future, humanity rises in revolt against the order that governs it, a Finnish dystopian drama of rebellion.

Lauri Haarla's 1922 Finnish work ('The Revolt of Mankind') imagines a future upheaval in dark, dramatic terms. Sombre, ambitious period SF. Read it for an early Finnish dystopian vision of humanity in revolt against its own machinery of control.

In its time

Published in 1922, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

2 hr 6 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).