John Cuningham 34 min read

An earnest, sorrowful memoir of a singular event: a chain of thought unfolding in sleep, published as a truthful memorial to the author's friends, associated with much misfortune and long suffering.

John Cuningham's 1873 book is an earnest fantasy and social-SF curiosity of visionary dreaming. Sincere, strange, of its era. Read it for a heartfelt period narrative offered in full belief, one man's account of a remarkable evolvement of thought in sleep, and the sadness bound up with it.

In its time

Published in 1873, during the 1870s, under the sea and around the moon.

Reading it

34 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).