George Gordon Hastings ~6 hr read

A man wakes from decades of induced sleep to find America transformed into a monarchy, and himself entangled in the intrigues of a court where a king now rules the old republic.

George Gordon Hastings's 1904 novel is an inventive dystopian and social-SF tale. Speculative, satirical, of its era. Read it for a turn-of-the-century Rip-Van-Winkle vision of a future America that has abandoned democracy for kingship, blending political satire with mystery and romance in a colorful Edwardian speculative romance.

In its time

Published in 1904, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

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