James Howard Calisch 44 min read

Published on Mars in the year 55 E.D., a chronicle of the warlike madness that gripped the nations of the red planet, and the terrific consequences that followed.

James Howard Calisch's 1915 book is a satirical military and social-SF allegory. Pointed, imaginative, of its era. Read it for a wartime parable that transplants humanity's own follies to a strife-torn Mars, holding a mirror to Earth's nations at the height of the Great War with wry, cautionary intent.

In its time

Published in 1915, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

44 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).