Author Description

Includes the complete unabridged version as originally published in the Boston Post in 1898. Also includes an extensive Foreword and Afterword by Robert Godwin, space historian and Space Curator of the Canadian Air & Space Museum, explaining the historical significance of this book, specifically as it relates to rocket pioneer Robert H. Goddard. Also includes all of the original illustrations, restored from the Boston Post and a supplement including the illustrations from the New York Sun, as well as the original correspondence between Garrett Serviss and Thomas Edison.