Roy Rockwood 3 hr 46 min read

Boy chemists Jack Darrow and Mark Sampson blow up test tubes in their lab, and are soon bound on the longest journey on record, a rocket voyage all the way to the planet Mars.

Roy Rockwood's 1910 novel is a rousing juvenile space-adventure from the Great Marvel series. Fast, wholesome, imaginative. Read it for an early boys' interplanetary adventure, two plucky young inventors and their marvelous ship braving the perils of a voyage to Mars, in the brisk, wonder-filled style of the pioneering juvenile science-fiction series.

In its time

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

Reading it

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