A newspaper magnate, Fritz Napoleon Smith, runs the world’s greatest news empire from his house in the American city of Centropolis. In a single day of the twenty-ninth century we see his telephote video calls, news delivered by spoken broadcast, air-trains, and engineers who can make rain at will but cannot summon clouds.
A short, startlingly prescient vision of the future, now thought to be largely the work of Verne’s son Michel. Download the free EPUB.