John Munro 3 hr 10 min read

A message from Mars sparks the invention of a new force, and a voyage by electric orrery to the crater-lands of Venus.

John Munro's 1897 scientific romance, by a popular writer on electricity, sends its travelers off the Earth via an ingenious anti-gravity contraption to a Venus of flowers, flying apes, and the ethereal Alumion. Thoughtful, science-minded Victorian interplanetary fiction in the grand pre-pulp tradition. Read it for an earnest, imaginative 1890s space voyage from a genuine popularizer of the era's new physics.

In its time

Published in 1897, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

3 hr 10 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).