Omega
Original title: La Fin du Monde
Author: Camille Flammarion
Original published: 1893
Translation: J. B. Walker
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
eBook created: 2018-09-10
Cover page adapted from: Gordale Scar, a painting completed in 1812 by James Ward
Topic: Science fiction
Copyright: CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication
Origin: Project Gutenberg
Origin: HathiTrust
Origin: Google Books
Source: Standard Ebooks
A comet threatens to collide with the Earth, perhaps bringing about the end of the world.
The book’s fictional premise is the discovery of a comet on a collision
course with the Earth in the 25th century. However, this is mostly a pretext on
which Flammarion can hang his interesting scientific speculations about how the
world will end, together with philosophical thoughts about war and religion.
Much of the scientific description he uses in the book, while accurately
representing the knowledge and thinking of his time, has today been superseded
by modern discoveries. For example, we now know the source of the Sun’s energy
to be nuclear fusion rather than being due to gravitational contraction and the
constant infall of meteorites.
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