I -The Red and Black and Gold Struggle for Supremacy on the Changing Map of the World

City of Endless Night

by Milo HASTINGS (1884 - 1957)

An example of early dystopian science fiction written shortly after World War I, "City of Endless Night" imagines a future with a very different ending to the Great War. Set in 2151 and in an underground Berlin, our protagonist is Lyman De Forrest, an American chemist who enters the city to discover the hidden truths of a forbidden metropolis. The subterranean world hosts a highly-regimented society of 300,000,000 sun-starved humans. As the first outsider to enter, he's horrified by what he finds, but will he accomplish his mission and escape the living tomb? - Summary by Kate Follis

Listen next episodes of City of Endless Night:
V - I am Drafted for Paternity and Make Extraordinary Petition to the Chief of the Eugenic Staff (parts 4-7) , VI - In Which I Learn that Competition is Still the LIfe of the Oldest Trade in the World (parts 5-9) , XII - The Divine Descendants of William the Great Give a Benefit for the Canine Gardens and Pay Tribute to the Piggeries (parts 4-5) , XIV - The Black Spot is Erased from the Map of the World and There is Dancing in the Sunlight on the Roof of Berlin (parts 5-7) , II - I Explore the Potash Mines of Stassfurt and Find a Diary in a Dead Man's Pocket , III - In a Black Utopia the Blond Brood Breeds and Swarms , IV - I Go Pleasuring on the Level of Free Women and Drink Synthetic Beer , IV - In Which I Salute the Statue of God, and a Psychic Expert Explores My Brain and Finds Nothing , V - I am Drafted for Paternity and Make Extraordinary Petition to the Chief of the Eugenic Staff (parts 1-3) , VI - In Which I Learn that Competition is Still the Life of the Oldest Trade in the World (parts 1-4) , VII - The Sun Shines Upon a King and a Girl Reads of the Fall of Babylon , VIII - Finding Therein One Righteous Man, I Have Compassion on Berlin , X - A Goddess Who is Suffering from Obesity, and a Brave Man Who is Afraid of the Law of Averages , XI - In Which the Talking Delegate is Answered by the Royal Voice and I Learn that Labor Knows Not God , XII - The Divine Descendants of William the Great Give a Benefit for the Canine Gardens and Pay Tribute to the Piggeries (parts 1-3) , XIII - In Which a Woman Accuses Me of Murder and I Place a Ruby Necklace About Her Throat , XIV - The Black Spot is Erased from the Map of the World and There is Dancing in the Sunlight on the Roof of Berlin (parts 1-4)