Mark Wicks ~6 hr read

Aboard an anti-gravity airship, travelers voyage first to the Moon and then to Mars, where, from the air, they gaze in wonder over line after line of the planet's fabled canals.

Mark Wicks's 1911 novel is an earnest, science-minded interplanetary romance. Vivid, educational, of its era. Read it for a charming Edwardian space voyage steeped in the real astronomy of its day, Percival Lowell's Martian canals brought to life, blending genuine scientific enthusiasm with the wonder of a grand tour to the red planet.

In its time

Published in 1911, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

~6 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).