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Dive into a gripping three-part tale from the July to September 1911 issues of Physical Culture magazine. This prescient story, commissioned by the influential health and fitness pioneer Bernarr Macfadden, paints a vivid picture of a looming world war between Japan and the United States. While Japan boasts a sophisticated society, it grapples with food shortages and overpopulation, pushing it toward conflict with an America struggling with widespread ill health and detrimental habits. Some of the author‚As predictions about the future are chillingly accurate. Join narrator Kate Follis as she...

Step into a haunting vision of the future in City of Endless Night, an early dystopian science fiction tale penned shortly after World War I. Set in the year 2151, this gripping narrative unfolds in the underground expanse of Berlin, where Lyman De Forrest, an American chemist, ventures into a forbidden metropolis to uncover its dark secrets. Beneath the surface lies a meticulously controlled society of 300 million sun-starved inhabitants. As the first outsider to penetrate this hidden world, Lyman is confronted with unspeakable horrors. Will he succeed in his mission and find a way to escape ...

In the wake of World War One, Milo Hastings imagined a future in which the then newly established League of Nations and Weimar Republic had both collapsed. He described a theoretical scenario in which Germany would be ruled by a single man who had leveraged the forces of ethnonationalism, socialism, and religion to declare himself a god. Hastings mused that Germany would instigate a second world war in 1983, and that a radical breakthrough in weapons technology would cause that war to devolve into a stalemate.