Garrett Putman Serviss 4 hr 8 min read

Dedicated to the readers of Jules Verne, a marvellous atomic ship carries its crew to the caverns and sun-lands of Venus.

Garrett P. Serviss's 1911 scientific romance sends adventurers off the Planetary Limited to a Venus of crystal mountains, children of the sun, and language without speech. Serviss, an astronomer-popularizer, wears his Verne influence proudly, delivering wide-eyed interplanetary spectacle in the grand pre-pulp tradition. Read it for a foundational American planetary romance, all wonder and peril, from the era when Venus could still hold anything.

In its time

Published in 1911, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

4 hr 8 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).