Omega (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Camille Flammarion
- First Published: 1894
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—apocalypse
- Time of Work: The twenty-fifth century and ten million years in the future
- Setting: Earth
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Apocalyptic and catastrophe fiction
- Subjects: Future, Earth, Asteroids, comets, or meteors, Apocalypse
- Locales: Earth
The Plot
This work is a narrative only in the most minimal sense. The first section offers no characters, only types, each of whom speaks from the perspective of a particular discipline. The sole “plot” is an immediate threat of a comet striking Earth, in early July of an undisclosed year in the twenty-fifth century.
The novel describes an assembly of world scientists, in the “new palace of the Institute,” in Paris. The narrator first discusses, using many technical graphs and numerical calculations, the nature of the comet and its arrival time. Then the director...
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