One of the first science fiction works where the enormous power of energy released during radioactive decay is foreseen. At the center of the story is a very extraordinary story of tragic love that connects across millennia. The figure of Aisha - a creature that combines wisdom in the knowledge of nature, the power to control powerful elements, the transformation of love and calculation devoid of humanism - is depicted in a very multifaceted manner. Her features and judgments, combined with the views of the English at the end of the 19th century - the storyteller Horace Holly and his pupil Leo Vincey - make it possible to more fully outline how views on the meaning of development, on war and peace have changed during the time that Aisha spent on Earth.