Edgar Rice Burroughs 2 hr 21 min read

Two centuries after the Great War severed the hemispheres, a naval officer of Pan-America drifts across the forbidden Atlantic to the mystery of what became of a silent, abandoned Europe.

Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1916 novel is an atmospheric post-apocalyptic adventure. Vivid, imaginative, sobering. Read it for ERB's vision of a reverted Old World, a forbidden-zone voyage to a Europe fallen back into savagery, where the ruins of civilization hold strange and dangerous surprises.

In its time

Published in 1916, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

2 hr 21 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).