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Bad Air: Pollution, Sin, and Science Fiction in William Delisle Hay’s The Doom of the Great City (1880)

Wednesday 30 September 2015 at 16:05

Deadly fogs, moralistic diatribes, debunked medical theory - Brett Beasley explores a piece of Victorian science fiction considered to be the first modern tale of urban apocalypse.

Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/09/30/bad-air-pollution-sin-and-science-fiction/