Edgar Chambless 1 hr 50 min read

A visionary plan to abolish the crooked cities: a single endless building stretched along the roads and rails, where everyone may live a straight life in a rationally ordered new civilization.

Edgar Chambless's 1910 book is an earnest utopian and social-SF proposal for a linear city, part manifesto, part vision. Ambitious, eccentric, historically fascinating. Read it for a remarkable period dream of reinventing civilization as a continuous ribbon of homes stretched across the land.

In its time

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

Reading it

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