Title: The Second Deluge

Author: Garrett P. Serviss

Publisher: 1911

Genre: Proto Scifi

Pages: 215

Rating: 4/5 stars

Reading Challenges: Ebook; Dancing with Fantasy and Scifi - Proto Scifi

I routinely listen to The Apocalist Podcast highlighting apocalypse books chronologically and they haven’t recommended many of the books for listeners to read. This one was an exception. I dove in not knowing much about this apocalypse book, but ended up really enjoying it. The book reminds me of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells. There’s an adventure story punctuated with random science writing. We get a protagonist which no one listens to until it’s too late. We have some wild plot points. There isn’t many female characters, but that’s pretty typical of writings from the time period. The plot is fairly laughable in 2019 standards, but this was a fairly enjoyable classic science fiction novel.

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