Speculative

The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars

by L. P. Gratacap

A father promises his son that after death he will send word from Mars, where he believes souls go next, and the messages arrive by wireless. Louis Pope Gratacap was a curator at the American Museum of Natural History. It is strange and earnest, and it is the reason the wireless set in the ruin is kept switched on.

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Reading time

About 3 hr 40 min

Where to find it

The Reading Room of Helium, on Mars

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #13289. In the public domain in the United States.