The Dominion of the World (1900) represents a transition from
classic Vernian anticipation to the pulp serials of the 1920s and
1930s. It is also the only science fiction work that sought to
dramatize the "Transatlantic Peril," positing a fundamental
difference of culture and attitude between the United States and
Europe. Despite some of its outlandishness, hindsight has lent the
world imagined by Gustave Guitton and Gustave Le Rouge (The
Vampires of Mars) a certain prophetic quality. In the second volume
of the series, as France seemed headed for war with England over
colonial disputes in Africa, the secret cabal of American
billionaires, led by William Boltyn, schemes to stop French
scientist Arsene Golbert from completing his plans for a
subatlantic railway. Meanwhile, in his secret citadel of science
hidden in the Rocky Mountains, mad engineer Hattison has created an
invincible army of "iron men," robots that will ensure the
billionaires' victory...
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