Milo Hastings 1 hr 6 min read

The author dips into the future to show America's complacency punished, as an ascendant Oriental power, heeding the lessons the West ignored, brings twentieth-century war to her shores.

Milo Hastings's 1911 novel is an early future-war and dystopian tale warning against national self-satisfaction. Provocative, of-its-era, historically telling. Read it for a period invasion-and-war-prophecy story that reveals the anxieties of its age as much as any imagined future.

In its time

Published in 1911, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

1 hr 6 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).