Florence Carpenter Dieudonné 2 hr 55 min read

A storm hurls three men and a woman off the Earth to a small, half-cooled volcanic star, where they spend thirty-three years among bird-people who grow, as vegetables do, in enormous pods.

Florence Carpenter Dieudonné's 1887 novel is a weird, singular Victorian space-opera and lost-world romance. Strange, imaginative, historically fascinating. Read it for an eccentric early tale by a woman writer, blending interplanetary adventure with dreamlike invention in a truly peculiar mould.

In its time

Published in 1887, during the 1880s, lost races and dying earths.

Reading it

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