THE ATHENAEUMEdison’s Conquest of MarsGarrett P. Serviss
Speculative
Edison’s Conquest of Mars
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textWells’s Martians have been beaten, and the nations of Earth send a fleet of electric ships, designed by Thomas Edison, to strike back. Garrett P. Serviss wrote it as a newspaper serial in 1898, within months of The War of the Worlds and without asking Wells. It has some of the earliest space suits and space battles in fiction.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 4 hr 20 min
- Where to find it
- The Reading Room of Helium, on Mars
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #19141. In the public domain in the United States.