Annie Francé 4 hr 25 min read

In the gleaming young world-city A 15, built of limestone, red porphyry, and yellow basalt, a great civilization prepares for festival, on the eve of a warning, a panic, and a flight.

This is a 1926 Finnish translation of a dystopian novel by Annie Francé (Harrar), rendered from the German. Vivid, cautionary, of its era. Read it for an atmospheric vision of a glittering future metropolis and the catastrophe that overtakes it, a cautionary tale of civilization and nature presented in Finnish translation, in the sweeping, ominous style of early continental dystopia.

In its time

Published in 1920, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

4 hr 25 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).