Camille Flammarion 2 hr 41 min read

A great astronomer takes the reader soaring outward, a quarter-million miles, then millions, then billions, on a visionary voyage through the immensities of space.

Camille Flammarion's 1923 book, by the celebrated French popularizer of astronomy, blends science and poetic reverie in a series of cosmic meditations and imagined journeys. Lyrical, wonder-filled, humane. Read it for a master stargazer's dreamlike tour of the universe, science lit by awe.

In its time

Published in 1923, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

2 hr 41 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).