Otto Witt 1 hr 32 min read

Before the finest aristocracy of St. Petersburg, a genius unveils an astonishing scheme to journey into the interior of the Earth.

Otto Witt's 1912 Swedish novel ('The Interior of the Earth') is a pioneering work of Scandinavian science fiction and hollow-earth adventure. Inventive, forward-looking period SF. Read it for an early Swedish scientific romance that plunges from a glittering ballroom toward the mysteries beneath the world.

In its time

Published in 1912, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

1 hr 32 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).