Caesar's Column

Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century is a novel by Ignatius Donnelly, famous as the author of Atlantis: The Antediluvian World. Caesar's Column was published pseudonymously in 1890.The book has been variously categorized asscience fiction, speculative fiction, dystopian fiction, and/or apocalyptic fiction one critic has termed it an "Apocalyptic Utopia." Donnelly's novel tells the story of "a vast conspiracy against mankind has been organized on two continents, and it is rapidly taking possession of the world. If not met and overthrown at once it forebodes terrible social convulsions, the destruction of civilization, or the establishment of an absolute despotism."