2017 Reprint of 1927 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software.   The Absolute at Large was first published in 1922. The novel begins on New Year's Day 1943 - a future date at the time of writing - and describes the fundamental transformations in society as the result of a new mystical source of virtually free energy.  The story centers on the invention of a reactor that can annihilate matter to produce cheap and abundant energy.  Unfortunately, it produces something else as a by-product, the...

2017 Reprint of 1959 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software.  With a New Introduction by Lewis Gannett.  Originally published in Czech in 1936 and in English in 1937, this is the author’s prophetic and stirring novel about man’s fatal propensity to stuff himself with sweets until he becomes ill.  It is considered on enduring classic.  One of the great anti-utopian satires of the twentieth century, an inspiration to writers from Orwell to Vonnegut.  Man discovers a species of giant,...