E. M. Forster 2 hr 22 min read

A garland of fantasy and satire from a master of the English novel, holidays in Italy and England touched by the uncanny, and glimpses of strange futures caught in the open.

E. M. Forster's 1928 collection gathers his tales of fantasy and speculation. Elegant, ironic, superbly crafted. Read it for literary fantasy from a giant of modern fiction, subtle, beautifully written stories where the marvelous intrudes on ordinary life, companion to his celebrated 'The Machine Stops,' showing Forster's gift for catching Fantasy in the open.

In its time

Published in 1928, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

2 hr 22 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).