Front cover of Hay’s The Doom of the Great City.
Featured on PDR in the essay Bad Air: Pollution, Sin, and Science Fiction in William Delisle Hay’s The Doom of the Great City (1880)
Deadly fogs, moralistic diatribes, debunked medical theory — Brett Beasley explores a piece of Victorian science fiction considered to be the first modern tale of urban apocalypse.
Also appearing in the essay…
Front cover of Hay’s The Doom of the Great City.
Date
1880
From
The Doom of the Great City
