Lord of the World

Lord of the World is a 1907 apocalyptic novel by Robert Hugh Benson. It is sometimes deemed one of the first modern dystopias. Michael D. O'Brien's Catholic apocalyptic series, Children of the Last Days, follows a very similar theme as well. Essentially, the novel imagines a socialist and humanist world where religion has been either suppressed or ignored. People have no history or hope, so they often turn to euthanasia, which is legal. Further, there is a "one-world" government that uses Esperanto for its language and ultimately becomes a servant of the anti-Christ.