Guilherme Read Cabral 48 min read

A traveler, breaking his journey to Germany with a day in Lyon, falls into an encounter that opens onto a vision of a new world, a scientific romance grounded, its author insists, in real discovery.

Guilherme Read Cabral's 1895 novel is an early Portuguese utopian and scientific romance. Earnest, speculative, of its era. Read it for a rare Portuguese contribution to nineteenth-century speculative fiction, a fantasy of a new world built, its author claims, on genuine scientific foundations, dedicated to his grandchildren, in the visionary, educational spirit of the Vernian romance.

In its time

Published in 1895, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

48 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).