The Red Napoleon — Floyd Phillips Gibbons

Published in 1929, this classic social-science-fiction novel is a tale of the future in which we are now living: the angry rise of the Third World, supported by communism and desperately resisted by capitalist countries.

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The story closes in what is now the faintly distant past, 1941, when at the novel’s dramatic climax North America wins a great sea battle in the Caribbean, defeating the world-conquering hordes of the Mongol Karakhan, the �"Red Napoleon,” which have invaded Canada and penetrated the Eastern seaboard of the United States.

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Gibbons’s prophetic view includes the beginning of the Second World War with a lightning thrust into Poland, the unification of China, worldwide depres�,­sion, and the astonishing prediction of the rise of the Third World and the con�,­flict over white supremacy.

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In a brilliant Afterword to this new edition, John Gardner notes that time has proven Gibbons right, that this is a book �"to bring above-ground into light”; it is, he states, a �"landmark that slipped by unnoticed.”