L. P. Gratacap 3 hr 5 min read

A posthumous paper by a man who died in New Zealand of an illness caught receiving wireless messages, detailing an astonishing and unprecedented history of contact with the life to come, on Mars.

L. P. Gratacap's 1903 novel is an earnest hard-SF and social-SF tale of Mars as the afterlife. Ambitious, strange, of its era. Read it for a remarkable period vision where the dead live again on the red planet and communicate by wireless with the living, blending science, spiritualism, and cosmic speculation.

In its time

Published in 1903, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

3 hr 5 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).