J. Stewart Barney ~5 hr read

A lone American genius, armed with a war-ending superweapon, sets out to impose peace on a warring world, meeting kings and confronting the might of Germany.

J. Stewart Barney's 1915 novel is an early technothriller of a single inventor forcing an end to the Great War through overwhelming science. Ambitious, of-its-moment SF. Read it for a period vision of the ultimate weapon and one man's audacious plan to abolish war by force.

In its time

Published in 1915, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

~5 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).