The Vacant World

4 hrs. 57 min.

Language Russian

Author George England

Narrator Larisa Yurova

“The Unoccupied World” is the first part of George Allan England’s most famous trilogy, “Darkness and Dawn.” According to the plot, the engineer Allan Stern and his secretary Beatrice Kendrick fall into a mysterious lethargic sleep and wake up many decades later in a destroyed and emptied New York. The novel is built on their adventures in an uninhabited world and the slow rebirth of civilization. “Darkness and Dawn” became one of the classic works of early 20th-century “post-catastrophe” science fiction, and even received a reissue in an expanded edition in the mid-1960s. George England is considered worldwide one of the pioneers of modern adventure science fiction, although among the books published by him there are also detective stories, travel notes, and even scientific studies on sociology. And England is often remembered as the author of the first American fantastic socialist-leaning novels. His works were published in the magazines “Cavalier” and “All-Story,” and enjoyed enormous popularity.

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