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A Honeymoon in Space

by George Chetwynd Griffith (1857–1906)

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  • 22 chapters
  • Reading level: 7th grade

"A Honeymoon in Space" by George Chetwynd Griffith is a novel published in 1901. When British aristocrat Lord Redgrave kidnaps the woman he loves aboard his anti-gravity spaceship, their marriage becomes the strangest honeymoon imaginable—a grand tour of the Solar System. From the Moon's desolate ruins to Mars's intellectual giants, Venus's sinless angels, and Saturn's bizarre creatures, the newlyweds encounter civilizations at every stage of evolution, each stop revealing unsettling truths about humanity's place in the cosmos.

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  • Science fiction

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Prologue

THE FIRST CRUISE OF THE ASTRONEF

About eight o'clock on the morning of the 5th of November, 1900, those of the passengers and crew of the American liner St. Louis who happened, whether from causes of duty or of their own pleasure, to be on deck, had a very strange—in fact a quite unprecedented experience.

The big ship was ploughing her way through the long, smooth rollers at her average twenty-one knots towards the rising sun, when the officer in charge of the navigating bridge happened to turn his glasses straight ahead. He took them down from his eyes, rubbed the two object-glasses with the cuff of his coat, and looked again. The sun was shining through a haze which so far dimmed the solar disc that it was possible to look straight at it without inconvenience to the eyes.

The officer took another long squint, put his glasses down, rubbed his eyes and took another, and murmured, "Well I'm damned!"

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Contents

  1. Prologue
  2. Chapter I
  3. Chapter II
  4. Chapter III
  5. Chapter IV
  6. Chapter V
  7. Chapter VI
  8. Chapter VII
  9. Chapter VIII
  10. Chapter IX
  11. Chapter X
  12. Chapter XI
  13. Chapter XII
  14. Chapter XIII
  15. Chapter XIV
  16. Chapter XV
  17. Chapter XVI
  18. Chapter XVII
  19. Chapter XVIII
  20. Chapter XIX
  21. Chapter XX
  22. Epilogue

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This free edition of A Honeymoon in Space by George Chetwynd Griffith comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #19476, released 2006-10-05. It is in the public domain in the United States, so you can read it here in full at no cost, on any phone, tablet or computer. Genre: Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Romance, Adventure, British Literature.

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