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The Doomsman

First published: 1906
Pages: 240

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Written in 1906, this early scientific romance imagines New York a century into a ruined future. A half-remembered catastrophe has erased the old republic, and the broken towers of Manhattan rise across the water while scattered tribes scratch out a half-medieval existence in the wreckage. The story follows Constans, son of a small settlement's ruler, as he tries to understand how the marvelous vanished world fell apart and comes up against the Doomsmen, a predatory clan that holds a fortified keep at the city's heart, where a half-mad priest tends a dangerous engine left by the ancients. Sutphen reaches for a form that would not have a name for decades: the post-apocalyptic quest, its restless hero piecing a lost civilization back together. For readers of early dystopian and survival fiction, it reads as an ancestor of the genre.

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Van Tassel Sutphen

William Gilbert Van Tassel Sutphen (1861–1945) was an American author and editor who worked for many years at Harper & Brothers. He is remembered for his popular early golf fiction, including The Golficide and Other Tales of the Fair Green, and for his ventures into scientific romance.

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