Sydney Watson 4 hr 9 min read

After the Rapture, those left behind face the Tribulation and the reign of Antichrist, and the terrible choice of whether to take the Mark of the Beast, or die refusing it.

Sydney Watson's 1918 novel is a dramatic dystopian and religious-SF tale of the end times. Earnest, vivid, of its era. Read it for an influential early work of Rapture fiction, dramatizing the Great Tribulation of biblical prophecy, a forerunner of a whole genre of end-times thrillers, told with fervent conviction.

In its time

Published in 1918, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

4 hr 9 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).