A Honeymoon in Space

"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.

A Honeymoon in Space, by George Chetwynd Griffith. Republished by OpenStories from Project Gutenberg eBook #19476.