Hartmann The Anarchist

Entertaining late 19th century hokum. This one zips along quickly enough. The central premise has an anarchist raining death on the streets of London from a souped up airship, and the scenes of wild destruction are satisfyingly apocalyptic. The end is very sudden and entirely unsatisfying, but proba......more

The anarchist novel that Jules Verne would have written.........more

Since when did so many horrific writers of the late 19th century ever write so optimistically about a Doomsday Armageddon event that never even happened in the first place like this? If this isn't the worst thing ever written, I dunno what is! This is pretty much yet another generic and forgettable......more

At times this book peaked interest, and provided some tension and towards the end, the imagery produced (along with th help of very grainy images) is incredible. However, there are also times where it is easy to see why this book was forgotten. The story is somewhat random in places and resolves qui......more

A late 20C anarachist satirical take on late 19C and early 20C science fiction adventure stories. As a pastiche it really doesn't work. It reads like an overlong injoke for people who don't really know the subject they are attempting a piss-take on. The painfully bad "lost history "of the author and......more