Ellsworth Douglass 4 hr 4 min read

A gravity-defying projectile carries an explorer to Mars, where, astonishingly, he finds a civilization repeating Earth's own history, living out the very age of the Pharaohs.

Ellsworth Douglass's 1899 novel is a striking interplanetary romance built on a bold parallel-evolution premise. Imaginative, curious, of its era. Read it for a turn-of-the-century Mars adventure where a broker finds the red planet reenacting biblical Egypt, and turns it to profit.

In its time

Published in 1899, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

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