![]() ![]() The most interesting fact about the shift between the 18 accounts is his realization, as a result of the actual war of 1914-18, that that he had been more accurate than he had supposed, and far more than he had wanted to suppose. Albert Robida (1848-1926), was a remarkable and far-sighted prophet in anticipating future warfare and its consequences on human survivors. The book also includes both the 18 versions of Robida's classic War in the 20th Century. Written in 1919, four years after World War I, Engineer von Satanas is a classic of futuristic fiction, thirty years ahead of its time, and still relevant today because the threats it describes still exist and still serve as a significant motor of anxiety in contemporary science fiction. ![]() After fifteen years of absence at the North Pole, a man rediscovers Europe on the verge of war in 1929. ![]()
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