Frances Power Cobbe 42 min read

The greatest discovery ever achieved by man: the Prospective Telegraph, which conquers Time as the Electric Telegraph conquered Space, letting future years and even future centuries answer our call.

Frances Power Cobbe's 1877 book is a sharp satirical utopia and social-SF spoof, cast as a newspaper of the future. Witty, pointed, prophetic. Read it for a clever Victorian send-up of scientific hubris, a mock newspaper from tomorrow that skewers the age's boundless faith in progress with dry, ingenious humor.

In its time

Published in 1877, during the 1870s, under the sea and around the moon.

Reading it

42 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).