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Published the same year as Jules Verne's classic From the Earth to
the Moon and Henri de Parville's An Inhabitant of the Planet Mars,
Achille Eyraud's Voyage to Venus (1865) was the first novel to
describe an interplanetary rocket-powered spaceship. Eyraud
supports his design with an elaborate (but ultimately flawed)
pseudo-scientific argument and describes its cosmic voyage in a
logical manner. Once on Venus, his protagonists discover a utopian
society in which the sexes are equal and solar-powered robots toil
in the fields. Voyage to Venus has often been mentioned in many
histories of space travel and science fiction, although the
difficulty of obtaining the original text until now meant that few
have read it. This ground-breaking work is at last available in
English in its first annotated translation by award-winning author
Brian Stableford.
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