Nordenholt’s Million

When a mutated soil bacterium spreads across the globe and destroys the plant life that feeds the world, civilization has only months before mass starvation. Into this crisis steps Nordenholt, a ruthless financier who decides that saving everyone is impossible and that the only hope lies in saving a chosen few. He seizes control, herds resources and skilled workers into a guarded enclave in Scotland’s Clyde valley, and lets the rest of humanity perish. Narrated by his reluctant lieutenant, the story weighs cold calculation against conscience as the survivors struggle to rebuild. Published in 1923, it stands among the earliest British eco-catastrophe novels, grim and unsettlingly plausible. Read it free in PDF and EPUB.