Alice Ilgenfritz Jones & Ella Merchant 3 hr 9 min read

A traveler journeys to Mars and finds two very different societies, one where women share men's vices, one an ideal of equality, holding up a mirror to his own world's ideas of the sexes.

Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and Ella Merchant's 1893 novel is a pioneering feminist utopia. Provocative, witty, ahead of its time. Read it for a landmark early SF by 'two women of the West', a Martian voyage that satirizes Earthly double standards by imagining worlds where women are men's true equals, a bold and clever precursor to the whole feminist utopian tradition.

In its time

Published in 1893, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

3 hr 9 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).