Garrett Putman Serviss 4 hr 27 min read

After the Martians' failed invasion, Earth strikes back: Thomas Edison builds a fleet of spaceships and a disintegrator ray to carry the war to the red planet itself.

Garrett P. Serviss's 1898 novel, an unauthorized sequel to Wells's 'War of the Worlds,' is a landmark of early SF, spacesuits, ray guns, an asteroid of gold, and interplanetary battle. Wildly inventive, historically pivotal. Read it for a foundational space-war epic that helped invent the genre's furniture.

In its time

Published in 1898, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

4 hr 27 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).