Hans Dominik 24 min read

In the year 2108, ten billion people fill a transformed Earth, and improved spectral analysis proves Mars has water, air, and green vegetation, ripe for a human colony.

Hans Dominik's 1908 novel ('The Journey to Mars') is early German science fiction from a founder of the genre's tradition there, imagining interplanetary colonization with technocratic optimism. Confident, forward-looking hard SF of its era. Read it for a foundational German vision of humanity reaching out to settle the red planet.

In its time

Published in 1908, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

24 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).