Berge Meere und Giganten (1924)

[Dave Monroe]

Berge Meere und Giganten (Mountains Seas and Giants) is a 1924 science
fiction novel by German author Alfred Döblin. Stylistically and
structurally experimental, the novel follows the development of human
society into the 27th century and depicts global-scale conflicts
between future polities, technologies, and natural forces, culminating
in the catastrophic harvesting of Iceland's volcanic energy in order
to melt Greenland's ice cap....

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berge_Meere_und_Giganten

Fantasy and Politics: Visions of the Future in the Weimar Republic

http://books.google.com/books/about/Fantasy_and_politics.html?id=iooaAAAAYAAJ