J. W. Hayes 1 hr 53 min read

A visitor is granted a prophetic vision of Portland, Oregon in the year 1999, a startling forecast of the city's future, delivered by a jocose prophetess.

Jeff W. Hayes's 1913 book is a local utopian futurism, imagining his own city transformed by the end of the century. Charming, earnest, regional period SF. Read it for an affectionate turn-of-the-century Portlander's prophecies of what his beloved city would become.

In its time

Published in 1913, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

1 hr 53 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).