George Allan England ~6 hr read

Carry monopoly to its logical conclusion, and why not the air itself? A capitalist sets out to seize physical control of the very atmosphere and sell humanity the right to breathe.

George Allan England's 1915 novel is a fiery dystopian social-SF tale, dedicated to socialist Eugene V. Debs. Pointed, dramatic, of its era. Read it for a vivid muckraking parable of capitalism run to its ultimate extreme, where a plutocrat corners the market on oxygen and a rising resistance fights to break his monstrous trust.

In its time

Published in 1915, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

~6 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).