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A Honeymoon in Space
A Honeymoon in Space is a 1901 novel by George Griffith. It was originally serialized in abridged form in Pearson's Magazine in 1900 under the title Stories of Other Worlds. The scientific romance story depicts a tour of the Solar System, a type of story that was in vogue at the time.
Reviewers' opinions on the book's literary quality have varied, while scholars have viewed it as a historically significant work. Important themes identified by critics include Darwinian evolution—which had a significant influence on a large number of works of fiction around the turn of the century—and imperialism.
British aristocrat Rollo Lenox Smeaton Aubrey, the Earl of Redgrave, is in love with an American woman by the name of Lilla Zaidie Rennick, who is engaged to marry another man. Redgrave intercepts the ocean liner carrying Zaidie to her fiancé in England in the Astronef, a spaceship he built from designs made by her deceased father, Dr. Rennick. The Astronef is powered by a form of anti-gravity called the "R. Force", developed by Dr. Rennick with the help of funding from Redgrave. Redgrave lures Zaidie—along with her chaperone—on board the Astronef and then kidnaps her by taking off at great speed to Washington, D.C., where he delivers a top secret alliance treaty from Britain to the president. In delivering the treaty, Redgrave prevents the outbreak of a World War against France and Russia. Zaidie and Redgrave marry on board the Astronef, hovering above the Capitol.
The newlyweds set out on their honeymoon in the Astronef, equipped with spacesuits and accompanied by the ship's pilot Murgatroyd, and make their first stop at the Moon. There, they discover the ruins of a civilization and the skeletons of giants. What little life still exists on the Moon has devolved to a beast-like state and is found only in the deepest craters where small amounts of air and water remain.
From the Moon they go to Mars. Upon arrival, they are immediately attacked by an aerial fleet of Martians. After defeating the enemy aircraft, they land and discover that the Martians speak English. The reason, it turns out, is that Martians have evolved in parallel with humans and recognized English as the "most convenient" language. The Martians are giant humanoids, and they have rejected emotions in favour of pure intellect. Zaidie's beauty intrigues one of the Martians whose baser instincts thus begin to re-emerge; disgusted, she shoots him dead in cold blood.
The couple's next stop is Venus, which is a paradise populated by angelic beings. The Venusians have progressed to a state of spiritual enlightenment and are entirely without sin. While they do not speak English like the Martians, they use music to communicate, and Zaidie is thus able to make herself understood through singing. Worried that they may be a corrupting influence on the pure and innocent Venusians, Zaidie and Redgrave decide to depart.
Jupiter is found to be a still-developing and uninhabitable volcanic wasteland, and the lovers go to the planet's moon Ganymede instead. There they find a highly advanced civilization living in domed cities to withstand the cold and dry environmental conditions of the moon. The inhabitants of Ganymede are superintelligent and near-divine. They show the Earthlings the moon's evolutionary history on an immensely more advanced version of a cinematograph and join them on an expedition into the Jovian atmosphere.
The final destination for the honeymooners is Saturn. The planet is home to a diverse ecosystem of bizarre lifeforms. The atmosphere is so thick that giant airborne jellyfish-like creatures are capable of living in it while roaming for prey. The life found here is more primitive near the equator, and grows increasingly more advanced as the voyagers approach the planet's south pole, starting with marine reptiles resembling those of Earth's Mesozoic era and culminating with cavepeople.
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A Honeymoon in Space
A Honeymoon in Space is a 1901 novel by George Griffith. It was originally serialized in abridged form in Pearson's Magazine in 1900 under the title Stories of Other Worlds. The scientific romance story depicts a tour of the Solar System, a type of story that was in vogue at the time.
Reviewers' opinions on the book's literary quality have varied, while scholars have viewed it as a historically significant work. Important themes identified by critics include Darwinian evolution—which had a significant influence on a large number of works of fiction around the turn of the century—and imperialism.
British aristocrat Rollo Lenox Smeaton Aubrey, the Earl of Redgrave, is in love with an American woman by the name of Lilla Zaidie Rennick, who is engaged to marry another man. Redgrave intercepts the ocean liner carrying Zaidie to her fiancé in England in the Astronef, a spaceship he built from designs made by her deceased father, Dr. Rennick. The Astronef is powered by a form of anti-gravity called the "R. Force", developed by Dr. Rennick with the help of funding from Redgrave. Redgrave lures Zaidie—along with her chaperone—on board the Astronef and then kidnaps her by taking off at great speed to Washington, D.C., where he delivers a top secret alliance treaty from Britain to the president. In delivering the treaty, Redgrave prevents the outbreak of a World War against France and Russia. Zaidie and Redgrave marry on board the Astronef, hovering above the Capitol.
The newlyweds set out on their honeymoon in the Astronef, equipped with spacesuits and accompanied by the ship's pilot Murgatroyd, and make their first stop at the Moon. There, they discover the ruins of a civilization and the skeletons of giants. What little life still exists on the Moon has devolved to a beast-like state and is found only in the deepest craters where small amounts of air and water remain.
From the Moon they go to Mars. Upon arrival, they are immediately attacked by an aerial fleet of Martians. After defeating the enemy aircraft, they land and discover that the Martians speak English. The reason, it turns out, is that Martians have evolved in parallel with humans and recognized English as the "most convenient" language. The Martians are giant humanoids, and they have rejected emotions in favour of pure intellect. Zaidie's beauty intrigues one of the Martians whose baser instincts thus begin to re-emerge; disgusted, she shoots him dead in cold blood.
The couple's next stop is Venus, which is a paradise populated by angelic beings. The Venusians have progressed to a state of spiritual enlightenment and are entirely without sin. While they do not speak English like the Martians, they use music to communicate, and Zaidie is thus able to make herself understood through singing. Worried that they may be a corrupting influence on the pure and innocent Venusians, Zaidie and Redgrave decide to depart.
Jupiter is found to be a still-developing and uninhabitable volcanic wasteland, and the lovers go to the planet's moon Ganymede instead. There they find a highly advanced civilization living in domed cities to withstand the cold and dry environmental conditions of the moon. The inhabitants of Ganymede are superintelligent and near-divine. They show the Earthlings the moon's evolutionary history on an immensely more advanced version of a cinematograph and join them on an expedition into the Jovian atmosphere.
The final destination for the honeymooners is Saturn. The planet is home to a diverse ecosystem of bizarre lifeforms. The atmosphere is so thick that giant airborne jellyfish-like creatures are capable of living in it while roaming for prey. The life found here is more primitive near the equator, and grows increasingly more advanced as the voyagers approach the planet's south pole, starting with marine reptiles resembling those of Earth's Mesozoic era and culminating with cavepeople.
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