Michel Verne Jules Verne 22 min read

The people of the twenty-ninth century live continually in fairyland, cities of ten million, houses a thousand feet high, yet, surfeited with marvels, they hardly notice.

The Vernes' 1889 story imagines a day in the life of a far-future newspaper magnate amid dazzling technology. Prophetic, witty, foundational futurism. Read it for a delightful early vision of the future, packed with predictions that range from the fanciful to the uncanny.

In its time

Published in 1889, during the 1880s, lost races and dying earths.

Reading it

22 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).