John Ames Mitchell 5 min read

One summer's night about a million years ago, the Moon was pensive, the Earth floated by admiring himself, and old Saturn, who had loved the Moon for aeons, watched and understood it all.

John Ames Mitchell's 1886 book is a whimsical cosmic fairy tale. Charming, fanciful, gently satirical. Read it for a delightful astronomical romance, told with mock-solemnity, of the loves and jealousies of the heavenly bodies, a genial fable dressed as the 'romantic side' of the earth's history.

In its time

Published in 1886, during the 1880s, lost races and dying earths.

Reading it

5 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).