William Alexander Taylor 1 hr 19 min read

A tourist lost in mid-ocean is mysteriously carried into Intermere, a hidden commonwealth whose first citizen explains the enlightened principles by which its people live.

William Alexander Taylor's 1901 novel is a utopian lost-world romance, unveiling an ideal society and its scientific marvels. Earnest, imaginative period SF. Read it for a turn-of-the-century vision of a perfected hidden world, in the grand tradition of the guided-tour utopia.

In its time

Published in 1901, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

1 hr 19 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).