Overhearing talk of the Kimberley district, the narrator recognises a place where, years before, he witnessed something extraordinary. A wave of disappearances and a red sickness lead him by sea and overland into the outback, where he finds a secret enclave of strange beings cultivating germs, and must find a way to escape and warn the world.
One of the earliest Australian science-fiction novels, from 1892, with the colonial attitudes of its time. Download the free EPUB.