Bad Air Pollution, Sin, and Science Fiction in William Delisle Hay’s The Doom of the Great City (1880)
By Brett Beasely
The Public Domain ReviewBad 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.