G. K. Chesterton 4 hr 44 min read

Professor Lucifer's flying ship sings through the skies like a silver arrow, carrying a captive monk, and below, a Catholic and an atheist resolve to fight a duel to the death over God.

G. K. Chesterton's 1909 novel is a witty, fantastical social-SF and philosophical adventure. Sharp, paradoxical, gloriously Chestertonian. Read it for a rollicking tale of ideas, where two sworn enemies who take religion seriously chase across England to settle their quarrel by the sword, in a world that thinks them both mad.

In its time

Published in 1909, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

4 hr 44 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).