Percy Greg ~9 hr read

Deciphered from a wrecked record, the tale of a man who built an anti-gravity ship and crossed space to a strange, ordered Martian civilization.

Percy Greg's 1880 novel is a landmark of early interplanetary fiction, sending its narrator to a Mars of elaborate laws, customs, and a persecuted faith, described in exhaustive world-building detail. Hugely influential on later scientific romance, it even coined the word 'astronaut.' Read it for a foundational Victorian voyage to Mars, dense, serious, and startlingly ahead of its time.

In its time

Published in 1880, during the 1880s, lost races and dying earths.

Reading it

~9 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).