A Columbus of Space

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A timeless science fiction in the style of and devoted to the admirers of Jules Verne. An wise scientist explores the furtive “inter-atomic energy”, and with it constructs a space shuttle which takes himself and three friends to Venus, where they find the residents of the dreary side, implausible detached cities, and danger in all surround.

A Columbus of Space consists of: A Marvelous Invention; A Trip of Terror; The Planetary Limited; The Caverns of Venus; Off for the Sun Lands; Lost in the Crystal Mountains; The Children of the Sun; Language Without Speech; An Amazing Metropolis; Imprisonment and a Wonderful Escape; Before the Throne of Venus; More Marvels; The Fall into Trouble Again; The Sun God; At the Mercy of Fearful Enemies; Dreadful Creatures of the Gloom; Earth Magic on Venus; Wild Eden; The Secret of the Car; The Corybantia of the Sun; The Earth.

Garrett Putnam Serviss was a U. S. astronomer, popularizer of astronomy, and one of the first science fiction authors. He was born in upstate New York and majored in science at Cornell University. He studied law at Columbia University but did not practice as a lawyer. In its place, he associated himself with the staff of the The New York Sun newspaper, as a journalist under editor Charles Dana.

Garrett’s much-loved subject was astronomy, and of the fifteen stories he made, eight are dedicated to it. He was indisputably far more read by the people on that subject than any person earlier to his time. He produced with Max and Dave Fleischer on The Einstein Theory of Relativity, a brief silent motion picture publicized in relation to one of Garrett’s science fiction stories. He also made six books, which would now be categorized as science fiction. Five of these were novels, and one was a short literature.
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