"Giphantia, or a View of Things Past, Things Present, and, During the Present Century, Things to Come in the World" is a fantastic book, a joint work of the writer Charles-Francois Tiefen de La Roche and his brother Tiefen de La Roche , in which the authors recreate the world in the coming century. The book is devoid of the usual for its time artistic form of a story and consists of science fiction descriptions. The authors created an imaginary country Hyphantia, where creatures exchange images with the help of "figures", or, in other words, gifs - images, moving images transmitted through a special device. The heroes of the book discover new technologies and wonders of science that change their understanding of the world forever. "Giphantia, or A View of the Past, the Present, and, During the Present Century, the Future of the World" is an exciting science fiction work that reveals to the reader the incredible possibilities of future technologies, as well as the questions which are about progress and human curiosity about the unknown.