Roy Rockwood 3 hr 31 min read

Young heroes set off in a wonderful projectile to the Moon, seeking a fabled field of diamonds, surviving accidents, enemies, and desolate wanderings across the lunar surface.

Roy Rockwood's 1911 boys' adventure, part of the Great Marvel Series, is a rousing juvenile space romp. Fast, illustrated, wide-eyed period SF. Read it for classic turn-of-the-century lunar adventure, complete with a petrified city and a treasure hunt on the Moon.

In its time

Published in 1911, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

3 hr 31 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).