Mrs. Charles Wilder Glass 1 hr 13 min read

A heartfelt 'scientific novel' of a young woman's journey to Mars and the love she finds there, dedicated by its author 'to all my readers' with disarming warmth.

Mrs. Charles Wilder Glass's 1912 book is an earnest, sentimental space-opera and utopian romance, self-published in Los Angeles. Sincere, dreamlike, historically charming. Read it for an unpolished but heartfelt period vision of Mars as a place of love and marvel, from an early woman writer of imaginative fiction.

In its time

Published in 1912, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

1 hr 13 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).