Berge Meere und Giganten
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Berge Meere und Giganten (Mountains Oceans and Giants) is a 1924 science fiction
novel
by German author Alfred Döblin
. Stylistically characterized by its expressionist
prose, the novel follows the development of human society into the 27th century, concentrating on global-scale conflicts between future polities, technologies, and natural forces.
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
by German author Alfred Döblin
Alfred Döblin
Alfred Döblin was a German expressionist novelist, best known for the novel Berlin Alexanderplatz .- 1878–1918:...
. Stylistically characterized by its expressionist
Expressionism
Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas...
prose, the novel follows the development of human society into the 27th century, concentrating on global-scale conflicts between future polities, technologies, and natural forces.