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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, an antiquarian edition from 1920 with the cover and illustrations in the book by Andrija Maurović – a rare and attractive copy of a classic of world adventure literature.
A scientific documentary novel about the discovery of radium, which tells the story of Marie and Pierre Curie, the medical revolution, but also the dark side – speculation, the fight for monopoly and the tragic consequences of radioactivity on people.
The second part of Flammarion's popular science work The Doom of the World (1894.). A speculative account of life on Earth in ten million years and the gradual end of humanity. Popular science with elements of science fiction.
On an island where things and memories gradually disappear, the writer hides a man who still remembers, fighting against a system that erases the past and identity.
The motif that Nesvadba has already used in a science fiction context, the FALSIFICATION OF AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIND, in "The Showdown with Doctor Dong" serves as a starting point for questioning the RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REVOLUTION AND SCIENTIFIC TRUTH.
The Doom of the World is the first part of Flammarion's vision of the distant future. Through scientific assumptions and philosophical reflections, he depicts the gradual weakening of the Earth and the first signs of the end of human civilization.