Camille Flammarion 3 hr 1 min read

Guided by the muse of astronomy, a dreamer journeys among the infinite beings that people the worlds of space, and glimpses eternity, other humanities, and the destinies of souls beyond Earth.

Camille Flammarion's 1890 novel, by the great popular astronomer, is a visionary blend of science and fantasy. Lyrical, speculative, sublime. Read it for a beautiful cosmic reverie from a master of nineteenth-century astronomy, a poetic tour of life on other worlds, reincarnation among the stars, and the immensities of space, blending real science with mystical wonder in a hugely influential scientific romance.

In its time

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

Reading it

3 hr 1 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

De Bieler