Arthur Cheney Train & Robert Williams Wood 2 hr 39 min read

Out of nowhere, a mysterious genius signing himself PAX halts the Great War by force, commanding the nations to lay down their arms, and wielding a power that can shift the very axis of the Earth.

Arthur Train and Robert W. Wood's 1915 novel is a prophetic hard-SF and military-SF tale of atomic power and world peace. Visionary, dramatic, historically remarkable. Read it for a startlingly early vision of a super-scientist ending war with irresistible new weapons, atomic disintegration and axis-tilting force, decades ahead of its time.

In its time

Published in 1915, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

2 hr 39 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).