A novel published 122 years ago illustrates how people back then envisioned the future
5 years before the book release of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, French astronomer and author Nicolas Camille Flammarion had published his La Fin du Monde (or 'The End of the World') novel in 1893. The work was reproduced into many languages and even adapted to a film in 1931. The images…