George Chetwynd Griffith 3 hr 51 min read

A newlywed couple tours the solar system in a private spaceship, the grandest honeymoon ever imagined.

George Griffith's 1901 scientific romance sends its wealthy lovers cruising from world to world aboard the Astronef, encountering the wonders and horrors of each planet in the pre-pulp tradition of interplanetary spectacle. Griffith, a bestselling Edwardian adventure writer, delivers cosmic sightseeing with Victorian confidence and imagination. Read it for a foundational grand-tour space romance from the dawn of the genre.

In its time

Published in 1974, during the 1970s, feminist sf emerges.

Reading it

3 hr 51 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).