Niels Meyn August Klingsey 2 hr 55 min read

An airship carries its intrepid crew on a fantastic voyage through the future, all the way to the planet Mars.

Meyn and Klingsey's 1918 Danish 'By Airship to Mars' is an early Scandinavian interplanetary adventure. Imaginative, adventurous period SF. Read it for a rousing Danish tale of a marvelous flying voyage to the red planet, from the dawn of the genre.

In its time

Published in 1918, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

2 hr 55 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Karl Hansen Reistrup