Science fiction (children’s/ya)

Best Sellers in Science Fiction

• 'A Columbus of Space' is a glorious story of adventure on Venus, published in 1909 and written by Garrett P. Serviss. This is first story ever reported about an atomic powered spacecraft. It is an precarious thriller written at a time when Venus was still doubted to only show one hemisphere to the Sun and Venusian life was still regard to be possible. The heroes of this, were in the middle of the cosmos, they were amazed when they saw the Earth. He is the first to take edge to the power of inter-atomic energy, which allows him to steer the Ocean of Ether and sale to the beaches of another world than ours. He builds a curious spool-shaped machine  and sets sail into space, arriving with his companion on the planet Venus. Courageous travellers from each journey to the planet Venus, which always has one side facing the Sun. The night side is a frozen polar wasteland occupied by Neanderthal like humanoids, while the light side has an advanced, Greco-Roman classical type civilization. This is a tour to Venus on a craft that can travel a superb speed and is charged by something that sounds perhaps nuclear. 

• Astronomy with an Opera Glass : Garrett  Putnam Serviss  was an American astronomer and science fiction writer. His writing creates people's  interest in astronomy. In this book he  tells the importance of opera-glass. Opera-glass has given us clear vision for astronomy and makes us well acquaintance with the stars.  Galileo made his discoveries possible with the opera-glass help.  Although it has low magnifying power but it's brilliant illumination of objects looked at is still valuable. He has given a picturesque description of the winter constellation. In which Orion is the prominent, in the east there is Pleiades above the northeast horizon the most beautiful star Capella flashes. Fiery red star Aldebaran looks like the eye of the angry bull. Taurus rises behind the horizon and finally a beautiful v-shaped cluster Hyades appears. The author has attempted to inspire the study of the heavenly bodies by pointing out some of the interesting and amazing phenomena of the universe that are visible with little or no help from optical instruments, and indicating means of becoming informed with the constellations and the planets. 

• 'Edison's Conquest of Mars' was printed in 1898 as a subsequence to H.G.Wells's 'The War of the Worlds'. It concerns Edison's efforts to hold off a Martian attack on Earth, with his own occupation of Mars. It also, as is visible in the title reveres Thomas Edison as the main hero of the story. This is the first literary presence of a spacesuit and the magnetic force he uses to move his ships through interplanetary space is more credible and founded in Science than the giant canon that the Martians use to throw their cylinders towards the Earth. This book consist of the first space battle to ever show in print. It is the first alien kidnapping story. It has asteroid mining and the first truly useful  spacesuits. Serviss acquire the collaboration of the famous innovator Thomas Edison and invented a totally different and amazing tale of humans conquering Mars. Together, this army of  Science Heroes start the longest journey in human history, in an effort to save the world. It has a position in the history of science fiction for its early employment of themes and  concepts that later became standards of the class.

• The book 'The Moon Metal' was a science fiction  story written by famous American writer Garrett P. Serviss, published in 1900. Serviss was a passionate astronomy writer, in this entertaining novella, he has imagined a future amusing story. The theme of the story is  amazing and terrific for common readers. Author narrates huge deposits of gold  was found in Antarctica, it became common metal and created financial crisis in the world market. There was hue and cry in the world economic scenario because value of every currency was declined. A group of bankers came in action to save the world from this economic crisis. A new metal Artemisiumis is  discovered to substitute the gold  but unfortunately it was in possession of a scientist Dr. Syx. Dr. Syx  wants to control the power of whole world. He asserts that metal comes from his rockies mines only he can produce this. But in reality it is not the earth's product, it comes from the moon by a matter transmitter. Two youths decide to find out the truth about this metal.

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