Arnold von der Passer 1 hr 50 min read

A future explorer sets out on a voyage of discovery through a Europe fallen into ruin, a warning ('mene tekel') to a complacent age.

Arnold von der Passer's 1893 German novel is a satirical dystopian tale of a decayed future civilization. Pointed, prophetic period SF. Read it for a nineteenth-century German vision of European decline, framed as a cautionary journey through the wreckage of tomorrow.

In its time

Published in 1893, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

1 hr 50 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).