J. L. Kennon 1 hr 25 min read

Eros Urides, a Martian, dictates through a psychic channel a full account of his world, its canals, its cities, its people, and the wisdom Earth might learn from them.

J. L. Kennon's 1922 book is an earnest psychic 'revelation' and utopian social-SF vision of Mars. Sincere, detailed, of its era. Read it for a fascinating period curiosity, a spiritualist's channeled portrait of a canal-laced, high-minded Mars, offered in full belief as a beacon of truth for a benighted Earth.

In its time

Published in 1922, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

1 hr 25 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).