Camille Flammarion 3 hr 21 min read

A great comet is discovered on a collision course with the Earth, and humanity, panicked, philosophical, and awed, confronts the possible end of the world, and beyond it the far future of the race.

Camille Flammarion's 1893 'Omega,' by the great French astronomer, is a sweeping, scientifically grounded vision of humanity's ultimate fate. Grand, poetic, prophetic. Read it for an ambitious meditation on the death of a world and the destiny of mankind, from a master of cosmic imagination.

In its time

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

Reading it

3 hr 21 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).