J. W. Hayes 1 hr 33 min read

On Mars, the telegraphers have built their own utopia, the Pleiades Club, a paradise for the men of the key, far from the toils of Earth.

J. W. Hayes's 1911 book imagines an idealized Martian society founded by and for telegraph operators. Curious, earnest, of its era. Read it for a charming period utopia dreamed up by a telegrapher, a fraternal paradise on the red planet.

In its time

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

Reading it

1 hr 33 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).