Willem Bilderdijk 1 hr 5 min read

A remarkable balloon voyage carries its traveler aloft to the discovery of a new planet, an early Dutch flight of scientific fancy.

Willem Bilderdijk's 1813 Dutch tale is a pioneering work of imaginative space-voyage fiction from a major Dutch poet. Inventive, visionary period SF. Read it for an early nineteenth-century Dutch dream of ballooning beyond the Earth to a newfound world.

In its time

Published in 1813, during the 1810s, frankenstein's decade.

Reading it

1 hr 5 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).