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Prof. John Munro (1849-1930) was the author of Heroes of the Telegraph (1891), The Story of Electricity (1896) and A Trip to Venus (1897). "In plain English, at 4 a. m., a ray of light had been observed on the disc of the planet Mars in or near the "terminator"; that is to say, the zone of twilight separating day from night. The news was doubly interesting to me, because a
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Paperback, 144 pages
Published
April 25th 2008
by Dodo Press
(first published 1897)
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I hate to say it, but there's a reason this isn't on your classic sci-fi shelf next to Verne and Wells. Two astronomers discover a signal suggesting life on Mars, and decide to go to Venus instead. After a lengthy discussion regarding a magnetic launch system (the first mention of what is now known as a mass driver in science fiction) and mocking Jules Verne's idea of using a cannon in "From the Earth to the Moon", they instead find a scientist who has discovered a form of propulsion with its ow
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One of those 19th century books with "dialogue" that lectures the reader, long-forgotten science, Eatth-like biospheres on other planets, etc. The author seems to have known the science and scientific speculation of the day. I'll grant him this: Many SF authors give elaborate, but thoroughly implausible, explanations for their tech. Here, he says little about the tech behind his spaceship.
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Weird, yet oddly entertaining. I was fascinated by what someone who has little to no knowledge of what it space is like, yet writes like it has all been figured out.
Old space-travel sci-fi from a time when space was still filled with ether and other planets were of course inhabited by aliens compatible with human love-interest.
Humanity discovers a ray of light emanating from Mars that convinces them there must be intelligent life up there, so, logically, they... travel to Venus. (*)
An interesting read, considering its age (and only interesting in exactly that context: what was sci-fi like back then?). Due to its age, it is avalable electronically for free ...more
Humanity discovers a ray of light emanating from Mars that convinces them there must be intelligent life up there, so, logically, they... travel to Venus. (*)
An interesting read, considering its age (and only interesting in exactly that context: what was sci-fi like back then?). Due to its age, it is avalable electronically for free ...more
Dated and with rather too much of a didactic edge
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“I shall see the face of Mars, anyhow, and that will be a rare experience. It seems to me that a view of the heavenly bodies through a fine telescope, as well as a tour round the world, should form a part of a liberal education. How many run to and fro upon the earth, hunting for sights at great trouble and expense, but how few even think of that sublimer scenery of the sky which can be seen without stirring far from home! A peep at some distant orb has power to raise and purify our thoughts like a strain of sacred music, or a noble picture, or a passage from the grander poets. It always does one good.”
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