Richard Hogarth rises from obscurity to build huge sea-forts and charge every ship that crosses the ocean, making himself master of world trade, while Europe turns on its Jews. Shiel mixes politics, prophecy and melodrama, and its treatment of Jewish characters reflects the antisemitic stereotypes of 1901.
A strange, overheated early science-fiction novel, for readers interested in the roots of the genre. Download the free EPUB.