Unveiling a Parallel

His first sight of Mars is not a red desert, but a rose-colored sky, green fields, and a beautiful city whose astronomers have been watching his arrival.

After an astonishingly swift voyage in his aeroplane, an Earthman lands on the distant planet and is welcomed with courteous curiosity by Severnius and his fellow astronomers. In Severnius’s elegant home, every detail seems to reveal a world shaped by unfamiliar ideas of taste and human possibility. As the traveler encounters Martian societies where women’s lives challenge everything he has taken for granted, his assumptions about equality—and about himself—come under pressure. What will he find when he looks beyond the welcome?

With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world.

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