Hugo Gernsback 3 hr 27 min read

In the wondrous world of 2660, Ralph 124C 41+, one of the greatest scientists alive, races to save the woman he loves through a dazzling array of future inventions.

Hugo Gernsback's 1911 novel, by the founding father of modern science-fiction publishing, is a landmark packed with astonishing technological prophecies. Clunky yet visionary, hugely historic. Read it for the famously prescient work that foresaw radar, television, and much more, a cornerstone of the genre's history.

In its time

Published in 1911, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

3 hr 27 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).