Robert Cromie 2 hr 55 min read

A man's disconnected notes tell of an expedition to Labrador that never returned, and of a scientist who believed he could unlock enough energy from the atom to shatter the world.

Robert Cromie's 1895 novel is a prophetic dystopian and hard-SF tale of atomic annihilation. Visionary, ominous, historically remarkable. Read it for a startlingly early vision of atomic power as a doomsday weapon, where a fanatic's dream of unbinding the atom threatens the very existence of the Earth.

In its time

Published in 1895, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

2 hr 55 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).