Ford Madox Ford & Joseph Conrad 3 hr 44 min read

'Ideas,' she said. 'Oh, as for ideas—' A strange, contemptuous woman speaks of the coming Fourth Dimensionists, a cold new breed poised to inherit and remake the tired old world.

Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford's 1901 novel is an early political and social-SF fantasy of ruthless supermen. Subtle, ironic, atmospheric. Read it for a rare collaboration between two literary masters, an eerie tale of amoral beings from the Fourth Dimension quietly seizing the future, cloaked in Edwardian intrigue.

In its time

Published in 1901, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

3 hr 44 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).