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 fourth and
final volume of the series, Harry Madge's brigade of psychic spies
sent to infiltrate Europe on behalf of the secret cabal of American
billionaires, led by William Boltyn, is sowing chaos and despair,
but the invention of a new "psychic accumulator" by Arsene Golbert
enables good will to triumph, banishing hatred, ambition, cupidity
and egotism, and opening the doors to a new utopian society...
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