Crowds jam the bridges of a future Paris as the Institute debates whether an approaching comet will destroy the Earth. Flammarion, France’s great popular astronomer, mixes the coming crisis with a history of end-of-the-world terrors through the ages, then carries the story forward millions of years to the final days of humanity on a cooling planet.
A visionary early work of science fiction that influenced writers of cosmic catastrophe. Download the free EPUB.