George Chetwynd Griffith ~5 hr read

A secret discovery of limitless power sets the great nations racing to seize it, and whoever controls it will hold the whole world at their mercy, as master or as tyrant.

George Griffith's 1903 novel is a sweeping dystopian and hard-SF thriller. Vivid, prophetic, of its era. Read it for a grand Edwardian scientific-romance of a world-shaking invention and the international power-struggle it ignites, from a popular pioneer of the future-war and super-science story, full of intrigue, ambition, and cataclysmic stakes.

In its time

Published in 1903, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

~5 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).