I saw this article when it was published and downloaded a copy from Gutenberg here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37775 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/377

I saw this article when it was published and downloaded a copy from Gutenberg here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37775 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37775 It's really interesting how once you sort of clear out the works we are now familiar with from an era, you find stuff that's also highly interesting but often too weird to survive. I recently read "The Purple Cloud," one of the early apocalyptic novels, and while it was interesting I certainly see why it isn't widely read. Similarly "The Night Land," earthshaking in its originality but practically unreadable. The best among them is probably "The Machine Stops," which is well written, succinct, highly prescient, and seems to only recently have re-entered the zeitgeist somewhat.