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May I post a link to a thread of mine on here ?

It's about the fact that a translation of "Mountains Oceans Giants" (1924) finally emerged for free on the internet due to the lack of interest from publishers.

The book is by A. Döblin, a rather important figure of German modernism (with his novel Berlin Alexanderplatz).

>Mountains Oceans Giants takes us to the 27th century, where bewildered idle masses subsist on synthetic food, and ruthless elites decide to melt the ice of Greenland and open a new continent to colonisation. Technology runs amok, with disastrous consequences.

Here is an introduction to this epic
https://beyond-alexanderplatz.com/mountains-oceans-giants-introduction/
>The 27th century: beleaguered elites decide to melt the Greenland icecap. Why? – to open up a new continent, for colonisation by the unruly masses. How? – by harvesting the primordial heat of the Earth from Iceland’s volcanoes.
>Nature fights back, and it all goes horribly wrong…
>While Döblin’s world-building can be faulted in some respects – communication technologies remain at a 1920s level; ‘fliers’ and underground trains coexist with horses and carts – the encompassing Theme of Humanity, Technology, and Nature focuses on enduring features of humanity’s Promethean adventure. The technologies depicted in some detail share one significant characteristic: all draw on and affect Nature in an elemental way. Fire, Earth, Water, Air and Light are constantly perverted to destructive and inhuman end

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