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The Purple Cloud

M. P. Shiel, J. J. Cameron, Brian Stableford · 1901 · Novel

Setting: 1901

Synopsis

Published in 1901, M. P. Shiel's The Purple Cloud is an early "last man" science fiction novel. Foretold by a priest as being against the will of God, Adam Jeffson's Arctic expedition unleashes a terrible fate on the world - a mysterious purple cloud that spreads far into the heavens and across the earth.

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Source: OpenLibrary

Tags: Classic LiteratureEnd of the worldFictionNatural disastersScience FictionFiction, science fiction, generalFiction, action & adventureArctic regions, fictionFiction in EnglishFiction, horror

isfdb_id: 14970

openlibrary_id: OL6414317W

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