Anthony Trollope 3 hr 45 min read

In the orderly colony of Britannula, a law decrees the 'Fixed Period': at sixty-seven, every citizen must retire to a college to prepare for a peaceful, compulsory death at sixty-eight.

Anthony Trollope's 1882 novel is a sharp, prescient dystopian and social-SF satire. Provocative, ironic, ahead of its time. Read it for the great Victorian novelist's only science fiction, a darkly comic tale of a society that legislates euthanasia, and the human resistance to a coldly rational solution to old age.

In its time

Published in 1882, during the 1880s, lost races and dying earths.

Reading it

3 hr 45 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).