The Purple Cloud

byM P Shiel, John Sutherland (Edited by)
The Purple Cloud tells the grandly bleak story of Adam Jeffson: the first man to reach the North Pole and the last man left alive on earth. A sweet-smelling, deadly cloud of poisonous gas has devastated the world, and as Jeffson travels the stricken globe in search of human life, he slowly succumbs to madness, and unleashes fire and destruction on his planet. Dark, desolate and fantastical, The Purple Cloud was a pioneer in the genre of apocalyptic novels, and the first great science fiction work of the twentieth century.

Fantastic, weird, macabre...imaginative, fascinating, convincing, as some dreadful nightmare...a remarkable piece of work...head and shoulders above the average tale of fantastic adventure

New York Times Book Review

About M P Shiel

Details
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • ISBN: 9780141196428
  • Length: 352 pages
  • Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 130mm
  • Weight: 260g
  • Price: £9.99
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