Book Description
This rare and seminal science fiction novel (originally published in 1905 as LIEUT. GULLIVER JONES: HIS VACATION, predating Burroughs's Barsoom books by several years) has been unavailable in hardcover for years. It's a book necessary to any scholarly study of the history of science fiction; it's also a heck of a fun novel. Highly recommended. (This jacketless hardcover is intended for the library trade.)
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
Synopsis
BEYOND THE FIRST flutter of surprise, the Martians had shown no interest in the abrupt termination of the year's divinations. They melted away, a trifle more silently perhaps than usual, when I shattered the magic globe, but with their invariable indifference, and having handed the reviving Heru over to some women who led her away, apparently already half forgetful of the things that had just happened, I was left alone on the palace steps.
