Julian Hawthorne 3 hr 46 min read

On her twenty-first birthday, June 22, 2001, the tall and glorious Miriam Mayne steps onto her balcony into the sun's embrace, a billionaire's daughter about to set off on the strangest of journeys.

Julian Hawthorne's 1917 novel is a romantic space-opera adventure of love across the worlds. Vivid, imaginative, of its era. Read it for an early interplanetary romance by the son of Nathaniel Hawthorne, where a young woman's fateful birthday launches a cosmic courtship spanning the reaches of space.

In its time

Published in 1917, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

3 hr 46 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).