Florence McLandburgh 3 hr 34 min read

What if every sound ever made still echoes, and a device could be built to hear the voices of the vanished past? A dreamer pursues the idea to the edge of obsession.

Florence McLandburgh's 1876 collection leads with 'The Automaton Ear,' a striking early tale of science and mania. Thoughtful, atmospheric, ahead of its era. Read it for a remarkable Victorian proto-SF story by a woman writer, the fevered quest to recover all the sound history has ever lost, plus a gathering of her other sketches.

In its time

Published in 1876, during the 1870s, under the sea and around the moon.

Reading it

3 hr 34 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).