City of Endless Night
by Milo Hastings
About this book
An example of early dystopian science fiction written shortly after World War I, "City of Endless Night" imagines a future with a very different ending to the Great War. Set in 2151 and in an underground Berlin, our protagonist is Lyman De Forrest, an American chemist who enters the city to discover the hidden truths of a forbidden metropolis. The subterranean world hosts a highly-regimented society of 300,000,000 sun-starved humans. As the first outsider to enter, he's horrified by what he finds, but will he accomplish his mission and escape the living tomb? - Summary by Kate Follis
Chapters (18)
1I -The Red and Black and Gold Struggle for Supremacy on the Changing Map of the World
2II - I Explore the Potash Mines of Stassfurt and Find a Diary in a Dead Man's Pocket
3III - In a Black Utopia the Blond Brood Breeds and Swarms
4IV - I Go Pleasuring on the Level of Free Women and Drink Synthetic Beer
5V - I am Drafted for Paternity and Make Extraordinary Petition to the Chief of the Eugenic Staff (parts 1-3)
6V - I am Drafted for Paternity and Make Extraordinary Petition to the Chief of the Eugenic Staff (parts 4-7)
7VI - In Which I Learn that Competition is Still the Life of the Oldest Trade in the World (parts 1-4)
8VI - In Which I Learn that Competition is Still the LIfe of the Oldest Trade in the World (parts 5-9)
9VII - The Sun Shines Upon a King and a Girl Reads of the Fall of Babylon
10VIII - Finding Therein One Righteous Man, I Have Compassion on Berlin
11IV - In Which I Salute the Statue of God, and a Psychic Expert Explores My Brain and Finds Nothing
12X - A Goddess Who is Suffering from Obesity, and a Brave Man Who is Afraid of the Law of Averages
13XI - In Which the Talking Delegate is Answered by the Royal Voice and I Learn that Labor Knows Not God
14XII - The Divine Descendants of William the Great Give a Benefit for the Canine Gardens and Pay Tribute to the Piggeries (parts 1-3)
15XII - The Divine Descendants of William the Great Give a Benefit for the Canine Gardens and Pay Tribute to the Piggeries (parts 4-5)
16XIII - In Which a Woman Accuses Me of Murder and I Place a Ruby Necklace About Her Throat
17XIV - The Black Spot is Erased from the Map of the World and There is Dancing in the Sunlight on the Roof of Berlin (parts 1-4)
18XIV - The Black Spot is Erased from the Map of the World and There is Dancing in the Sunlight on the Roof of Berlin (parts 5-7)
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