Download e-book for iPad: Nordenholt's Million (Dover Doomsday Classics) by J. J. Connington

By J. J. Connington

Famine sweeps internationally whilst a lab coincidence unleashes a virulent pressure of micro organism that transforms fit fields into barren wastelands. With the destiny of the human race at stake, filthy rich financier Stanley Nordenholt establishes a stronghold in principal Scotland and assumes dictatorial powers to save lots of what is still of the planet's ravenous inhabitants. This gripping story of survival explores a few of the ethical dilemmas that come up within the wake of catastrophic occasions in addition to their social, cultural, and political effects.
A precursor to the latter-day stories from the golden age of technology fiction, this compelling novel used to be released by means of a famous British chemist in 1923. Acclaimed via the Encyclopedia of technological know-how Fiction as "realistic, reasoned, sociologically saw, and credible," it bargains an ever-relevant caution opposed to the exploitation of catastrophe as a pretext for the suspension of freedom, democracy, and justice.

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