Rudolf Rikhard Ruth ~6 hr read

In a perilous time to come, humanity faces catastrophe, and, at the last possible moment, a desperate struggle for survival unfolds in a sweeping adventure of the future.

This is a 1917 Finnish future-adventure novel by Rudolf Rikhard Ruth. Vivid, dramatic, of its era. Read it for a rare early Finnish contribution to speculative fiction, a fast-moving 'adventure romance of times to come,' pitched at the grand scale of world-threatening peril and eleventh-hour rescue, in the sweeping catastrophe-and-heroism style of the early future-war and disaster tale.

In its time

Published in 1917, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

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