aîné J.-H. Rosny 4 hr 56 min read

In the far future, as the Earth dies and water vanishes, the last dwindling humans give way to a new mineral form of life, the ferromagnetics.

Rosny aîné's 1912 'The Death of the Earth,' by a French pioneer some called a precursor of Wells, is a haunting far-future vision of humanity's end. Bleak, poetic, visionary. Read it for a profound and beautiful tale of the last men and the strange life that inherits a dying world.

In its time

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

Reading it

4 hr 56 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).