Robert Hugh Benson ~6 hr read

Having once sketched a grim future of triumphant secularism, the author now imagines the opposite: a world sixty years hence in which ancient faith has returned to reshape civilization.

Robert Hugh Benson's 1911 novel is a utopian counterpart to his dystopian 'Lord of the World.' Thoughtful, visionary, richly imagined. Read it for a Catholic writer's parable of a future in which the tide of modern thought has reversed, and a reawakened Christendom orders the world, a hopeful mirror to his darker vision.

In its time

Published in 1911, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

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