Mrs. Loudon ~10 hr read

In a technologically transformed twenty-second-century world, the mummy of the pharaoh Cheops is revived by a galvanic spark, and returns to walk among the marvels and follies of the future.

Mrs. Loudon's 1827 novel is a remarkable early work of science fiction, written in the wake of Frankenstein. Visionary, satirical, ahead of its time. Read it for a pioneering vision of the future, a reanimated pharaoh loose in a 22nd century of automata and airships, a witty, prophetic landmark by a woman writer decades ahead of her age.

In its time

Published in 1827, during the 1820s, tales of mesmerism, ghosts, and the fantastic voyage flourish in the romantic imagination.

Reading it

~10 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).