Captain Adam Seaborn 2 hr 33 min read

Captain Adam Seaborn sails south past the ice and discovers a passage into the hollow interior of the Earth, where he finds the enlightened, gentle white civilization of the Internals.

'Captain Adam Seaborn's' 1820 novel is a foundational hollow-earth utopia and one of America's earliest science-fiction works. Visionary, satirical, historically vital. Read it for the influential ur-text of the hollow-earth tradition, an early American voyage into an inner world and a pointed utopian mirror held up to the surface.

In its time

Published in 1820, during the 1820s, tales of mesmerism, ghosts, and the fantastic voyage flourish in the romantic imagination.

Reading it

2 hr 33 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).