Future wars and world disasters

6 books

After London; Or, Wild EnglandRichard Jefferies · 1885An 1885 novel by Richard Jefferies imagining England after civilization's collapse, in which London has ended and the countryside has reverted to forest, marsh, and wilderness, followed by adventures in the barbarous land that remains.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Tarrano the ConquerorRay Cummings · 1925A 1925 science fiction novel by Ray Cummings set in the year 2430, following a future New York newsman who witnesses a wave of assassinations of world leaders and uncovers a plot involving the mysterious conqueror Tarrano of Venus.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Crack of DoomRobert Cromie · 1895An 1895 science fiction novel by Robert Cromie, presented as an edited true narrative. Narrator Arthur Marcel recounts joining the mysterious Cui Bono Society of Herbert Brande, whose warnings about a coming catastrophe involving the earth's destruction he comes to believe.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Last ManMary Wollstonecraft Shelley · 1826A three-volume 1826 novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, presented as prophecies deciphered from leaves found in the Cumaean Sibyl's cave near Naples. The frame narrative introduces a tale of misery and woeful change told by its last surviving narrator.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The World Peril of 1910George Chetwynd Griffith · 1907This military novel explores the dangerous international tensions leading to global conflict. It details the escalating threat of war and the rapid development of revolutionary naval technology.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The World Set FreeH. G. Wells · 1914A 1914 futuristic novel by H. G. Wells, written under the shadow of approaching world war, imagining the discovery of released atomic energy, a devastating last war, and humanity's subsequent effort to end war through world government and social reconstruction.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية