Julius von Voss 3 hr 44 min read

A romance set in the twenty-first century imagines the marvels, manners, and society of a distant, better future.

Julius von Voss's 1810 German novel is an early work of futuristic fiction, dreaming forward from the Napoleonic era to a hopeful tomorrow. Visionary, optimistic period SF. Read it for a pioneering German vision of the twenty-first century, written when the future was pure imagination.

In its time

Published in 1810, during the 1810s, frankenstein's decade.

Reading it

3 hr 44 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Franz Joseph Leopold