Benjamin Lumley 4 hr 52 min read

Fragments purporting to describe the actual customs and morality of an inhabited star, Montalluyah, told as sober fact.

Benjamin Lumley's 1873 utopia frames its account of an alien world's institutions as genuine knowledge rather than fancy, riding the Victorian conviction that the planets teem with life. An earnest, curious work of speculative social vision from the era of 'the plurality of worlds.' Read it for a strange, sincere Victorian portrait of a better society among the stars.

In its time

Published in 1873, during the 1870s, under the sea and around the moon.

Reading it

4 hr 52 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).