James Cowan ~7 hr read

An astronomer and his companions journey to a Mars far older and wiser than Earth, and learn what our own world's future may hold.

James Cowan's 1896 novel sends its travelers to a remarkable Martian civilization for a philosophical, science-tinged tour of another planet's society and destiny. A thoughtful late-Victorian scientific romance in the interplanetary-dialogue tradition. Read it for an earnest 1890s vision of Mars as a mirror and prophet of Earth's own fate.

In its time

Published in 1896, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

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