A Honeymoon in Space (Science fiction) [Hardcover]

George Griffith (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1975 | Series: Science fiction

ILLUSTRATED BY STANLEY WOOD AND HAROLD PIFFARD

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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About the Author

Pseudonym of English author, adventurer and traveller George Chetwynd Griffith-Jones. He earned great fame as a science fiction writer in the last decade of the 19th century. In his writings the influence of Darwinian Theory of Evolution is quite apparent. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 302 pages
• Publisher: Arno Pr (January 1975)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0405062958
• ISBN-13: 978-0405062957
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,786,462 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Totally fantastic!, October 10, 2009

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Gerardo Cando "Amie Brandon" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Honeymoon in Space (Paperback)

This book has it all: rich man with space ship takes girl all over the solar system, fights nazi martians, has aerial battles, and sight sees in other strange places.

Kind of book that you forget yourself in. A good read, not something you will remember for years, but worth reading if you like space opera with weird plots and good writing. Like I do!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Richard Branson type guy exposes Nazi like Martians!, October 9, 2009

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John Drake "Raw Food Person" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Honeymoon in Space (Paperback)

Captivating story of a Richard Branson type Englishmen, who marries an American girl, who then explores the solar system. They find evidence of past civilizations on the Moon, and then visit Mars. On Mars, they find a race of nationalistic dictatorship-run beings, who are war like and dangerous. Further explorations are taken.

The book is a great read, for the story, characters, it's a great early science fiction, as well as a story about the different cultures on Earth, presented as aliens. Exciting, fun, interesting and instructive! Well recommended!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nazi like Martians - better than it sounds!, October 8, 2009

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Felicity Barrington "Seeking Sunshine in Seattle" (The Wet Coast) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Honeymoon in Space (Paperback)

A remarkable early interplanetary science fiction novel in which a wealthy honeymoon couple travel in a spacecraft powered by the 'R-force,' through the solar system, visiting the Earth's nearly lifeless moon and discovering exciting archeological remains, then visit the scientifically advanced, but warlike humanoid Martians as well as others.

Although written in 1900, the Martians are almost Nazi like, fascist beings. This pre-dates Hitler, and could have been read by early Nazi's where were fascinated by science fiction, fantasy and the occult.

There are other aliens who are `good' too. However, the Martians are the most interesting, and extremely `Germanic' - great book for either science fiction fans or those interested in the early history of fascist's found in literature.