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 | Henri Allorge's The Great Cataclysm (1927) takes place
in the Age of Science in the year 9978 when Earth has cooled down and
a population of scientists and artists live in a handful of great cities
scattered across the globe. They spend their time studying the ruins of
the great cities of the past and are served by a population of advanced
apes. But the stability of this utopia is threatened when all their electricity
suddenly vanishes...
"The Great Cataclysm might well owe the fact that it won a
literary award to the stridency of its pacifism, but the more interesting
aspect of its moralistic argument is probably its ardent condemnation
of waste in the exploitation of natural resources."
Cover by Grillon
Published by Black Coat Press in July 2011
ISBN: 978-1-61227-026-5
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