{"subjects": ["Utopias", "Fiction, religious", "End of the world", "Fiction", "Fiction, science fiction, general", "Fiction, christian, general", "Christian fiction", "Science fiction", "Fin du monde", "Romans, nouvelles", "Roman chr\u00e9tien"], "key": "/works/OL50103W", "title": "Lord of the World", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL31012A"}}, {"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL2865628A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [2114295, 5925116, 2897980, 2757008, 1713427, 12806790, 8791582, 12891290, 10530032, 11235028, 11440476, 11664683, 11981287, 12004279, 13228415], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "As creeping secularism and godless humanism triumph over traditional morality, it creates a world that has been divided into three powerblocks, where religious doctrine is not tolerated and euthanasia is practiced widely. In Britain, the Royal Family has been deposed; institutions of higher learning have been closed, and a politician intent on power in the name of peace is intent on the destruction of religion. The world now has only three main religious forces: Catholicism, Secular Humanism, and \"the Eastern religions.\" As a shrinking Church stands resolutely against him, laws are passed which require all the world's people to formally disavow the existence of God or be executed without trial."}, "genres": ["/tags/OL179T"], "latest_revision": 14, "revision": 14, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-15T13:38:43.937250"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-08-31T11:52:49.501491"}}