Garrett Putman Serviss ~6 hr read

The scientist Cosmo Versál warns that a watery nebula will drown the Earth in a second Flood, and sets about building a great Ark of steel, while a mocking world laughs and refuses to prepare.

Garrett P. Serviss's 1912 novel is a rousing hard-SF disaster epic. Vivid, prophetic, gripping. Read it for a classic catastrophe tale, a modern Noah building his ark against a coming deluge from space, and the drowning of the world, in one of the great early disaster novels.

In its time

Published in 1912, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

~6 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).