Alfred Charles Michaud 3 hr 35 min read

Astronomers say the Earth is constantly swelling and contracting; they call it 'breathing.' Those aren't breaths, the author says, those are sighs. A vision of a better world to come.

A. C. Michaud's 1951 book is an earnest utopian and social-SF vision written in the shadow of the Nazi horrors. Heartfelt, idealistic period work. Read it for a survivor's impassioned message to humanity, dreaming of a kinder world after the atrocities of war.

In its time

Published in 1951, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

3 hr 35 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).