Various 59 min read

An 1886 issue of a Victorian popular-science weekly, leading with a speculative essay on 'Life in Mars.'

This number of the venerable Chambers's Journal opens with a fascinated meditation on whether the planets are inhabited, a fine artifact of the Victorian public's appetite for speculative science. A period window onto how ordinary readers imagined other worlds. Read it for authentic nineteenth-century wonder about life among the planets, in a genuine popular journal of the day.

In its time

Published in 1886, during the 1880s, lost races and dying earths.

Reading it

59 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).