Albert Daiber 2 hr 25 min read

A crew of German world-sailors journeys to Mars and spends three years among its peoples and its forgotten realms.

Albert Daiber's 1910 novel for young readers ('The World-Sailors: Three Years on Mars') is early German interplanetary fiction, following an expedition through the wonders and kingdoms of the red planet. Earnest, imaginative period SF. Read it for a founding German vision of Martian adventure, aimed at the wonder of youth.

In its time

Published in 1910, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

2 hr 25 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Fritz Bergen