Jerzy Zulawski ~7 hr read

Fifty years after two doomed expeditions were fired at the Moon, word arrives of what became of the mad adventurers who went.

Jerzy Żuławski's landmark 1903 novel 'On the Silver Globe' (here in German translation) begins the great Polish 'Lunar Trilogy,' a somber, philosophical epic of survivors founding a new and troubled human society on the Moon. Far weightier than most moon-voyage tales, it profoundly shaped Central European SF. Read it for a foundational, deeply serious lunar saga unjustly little known in English.

In its time

Published in 1903, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

~7 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).