George Griffith
A Honeymoon in Space — George Griffith
A Honeymoon in Space — George Griffith
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One of the earliest works of science fiction, following a newly-married couple on an extraordinary voyage through the solar system in a private spacecraft. George Griffith's visionary 1901 novel imagines life on other planets with remarkable ambition — a fascinating window into Victorian scientific imagination.
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"You'll find afterwards that the Astronef doesn't take any account of high or low or up or down," he replied, looking at the dial of an aneroid barometer by the side of him. "Roughly speaking, we're rather over 60,000 feet—say ten miles—from the surface of the Atlantic. That's why I asked Andrew whether everything was tight. You see we couldn't breathe the air there is outside there—too thin and cold—and so the Astronef makes her own atmosphere as we go along. But I won't spoil what you're going to see by any more of this. So if you please, we'll go down now and get along to Washington. Anyhow, I hope I've convinced you so far that I've kept my promise."
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