Jack London ~5 hr read

Through the memoir of Avis Everhard, wife of the socialist firebrand Ernest, we witness the rise of the Oligarchy, the brutal capitalist tyranny, the Iron Heel, that crushes a doomed workers' revolt.

Jack London's 1908 novel is a landmark dystopian classic. Powerful, prophetic, harrowing. Read it for one of the first great modern dystopias, London's fierce, prescient vision of a fascist plutocracy grinding down the people, framed as a document from the future, that anticipated Orwell and shaped the whole tradition of political SF.

In its time

Published in 1908, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

~5 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).