A traveller in America in 1874 comes upon a battered manuscript: the record of a man who built a ship driven by ‘apergy’, a force that repels gravity, and sailed it to Mars. There he learns the language, laws and customs of a coldly rational Martian civilisation and joins a secret religious order.
One of the earliest interplanetary novels in English, for collectors of science fiction’s Victorian roots. Download the free EPUB.