A gem of nineteenth-century science fiction from mountaineer, philosopher and occasional novelist, Edward Douglas Fawcett. The narrator, a wealthy young Labour Party candidate who is firmly opposed to revolution, inexplicably joins an plot to bring the government to its knees by means of an aerial bombardment, using an airship invented by the notorious anarchist Rudolph Hartmann. Hartmann the Anarchist was republished, in part, in 1971 in the final issue of Forgotten Fantasy magazine, a forerunner to the celebrated Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy book series. It was subsequently republished in full in 2009. - Summary by Phil Benson