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A Honeymoon in Space (Science fiction)

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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!

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!

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.

This is an early science-fiction work that mixes elements of planetary romance and space opera. The plot's simple: A wealthy man builds a ship capable of traveling through the solar system and takes his engineer friend and his love interest on a tour of the worlds beyond Earth. Of course we now know much of the science behind it is ludicrous, but that doesn't decrease its fun. Unfortunately the shortness of the book precludes full development for all the civilizations Griffith describes as populating the varous worlds around us. Griffith also has his characters engaging in some rather dubious actions along the way, particularly on Mars. This makes me wonder exactly what message he was trying to convey to his readers. Overall, the book is fun as a way of understanding where scientific knowledge stood at the time the story was written. Beyond that though, its flaws almost match its strengths, making it one of the lesser entries in the genre from its time.

Interplanetary romance, I suppose you call this. With skirts, shaperones, possibly caddish noblemen who are not, all that sort of thing. Anglo-American wedded rivaly is amusing, and it seems the heroine's intelligence is not ignored in this particular book. Interplanetary romance, I suppose you call this. With skirts, shaperones, possibly caddish noblemen who are not, all that sort of thing. Anglo-American wedded rivaly is amusing, and it seems the heroine's intelligence is not ignored in this particular book. Sympathetic aliens, as well, even.