Ernest Bramah ~6 hr read

In a near-future England ruled by a triumphant Labour government, a secret League of the propertied classes plots a bloodless economic war to bring the socialist order to its knees.

Ernest Bramah's 1907 novel is a sharp, prophetic dystopian and social-SF tale of class conflict. Provocative, ingenious, of its era. Read it for a striking and much-debated political thriller, a conservative counter-revolution waged by financial cunning rather than force, in a vision of class war that fascinated (and troubled) its readers.

In its time

Published in 1907, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

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