Richard Ganthony 1 hr 52 min read

A selfish man is granted a Dickensian vision by a visitor from Mars, and given the chance to become someone better.

Richard Ganthony's hugely popular 1899 stage play sends a Martian to reform an egotist through a night of moral revelation, in the spirit of 'A Christmas Carol' translated to the space age. A landmark of early science-fiction theatre, later a pioneering film. Read it for a charming, influential Victorian fantasy of redemption, with a visitor from the red planet as its unlikely angel.

In its time

Published in 1900, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

1 hr 52 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).