Will N. Harben 10 min read

In the year ten thousand, a father tries to explain to his son the Dark Ages, those ignorant times, eight thousand years past, when books were as common as people.

Will N. Harben's 1892 story imagines a serene far-future utopia looking back on our own age as primitive. Thoughtful, gently satirical period SF. Read it for a Victorian's optimistic vision of a distant tomorrow, framed as a lesson about how far mankind has come.

In its time

Published in 1892, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

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