Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century is a novel by Ignatius Donnelly, famous as the author of Atlantis: The Antediluvian World. Caesar's Column was published pseudonymously in 1890. The book has been variously categorised as science fiction, speculative fiction, dystopian fiction, and/or apocalyptic fiction; one critic has termed it an 'Apocalyptic Utopia. (Wikipedia)'