Charles Dixon 4 hr 41 min read

Aboard the flying-machine Sirius, a band of adventurers leaves Earth for Mars, and finds captivity, love, jealousy, and a sentence of death on a strange and ancient world.

Charles Dixon's 1895 novel is a vivid late-Victorian interplanetary romance, carrying its explorers to a Mars of alien peoples, deserts, and palace intrigue. Earnest, colorful scientific romance of its era. Read it for a founding voyage to the red planet, complete with wonder, peril, and forbidden love.

In its time

Published in 1895, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Arthur Layard