The First Men in the Moon

A man sleeps for two centuries and wakes as the wealthiest person alive, in a London of vast towers where the poor labour for a ruling council. Wells builds one of the earliest visions of the corporate megacity.

H. G. Wells

Wells describes atomic bombs three decades before they existed, then follows the collapse and rebuilding of world order after they are used. A novel about technology outrunning the politics meant to control it.

H. G. Wells

A visitor to the New York of 1988 finds a city of glittering wealth built on a desperate underclass, and watches the revolt that follows. One of the most influential political dystopias of the 19th century.

Ignatius Donnelly