Owen Gregory 4 hr 12 min read

A foreign traveler tours Meccania, a rigidly regimented super-state where every act, thought, and moment of life is planned, classified, and controlled by the machinery of the state.

Owen Gregory's 1918 novel is a striking, prescient dystopia of the total surveillance state, eerily anticipating later horrors. Sharp, unsettling, ahead of its time. Read it for a remarkable early vision of totalitarianism, a guided tour through a nightmare of perfect order.

In its time

Published in 1918, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

4 hr 12 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).