Books with author Garrett P Serviss

Edison's Conquest of Mars is a classic 1898 science fiction novel by best-selling American astronomer and writer Garrett P. Serviss. It was created as a sequel to Fighters from Mars, an altered version of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds. Any profits generated from the sale of this book will go towards the Freeriver Community project, a project designed to promote harmonious community living and well-being in the world. To learn more about the Freeriver project please visit the website - www.freerivercommunity.com

In the aftermath of the Martian invasion described in H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds, the greatest minds of the Victorian Era—led by inventor Thomas A. Edison—mount a counterstrike on the Red Planet. Armed with disintegrator guns of Edison's invention, space suits, telephonic communication and electrically powered spacecraft, their mission is to insure that Mars never threatens Earth again! Written in 1898, Edison's Conquest of Mars was among the first stories to depict spacecraft, space suits, laser-like weapons, hand to hand battles with aliens, and other staples of 20th-century sci-fi.

Curiosities of the Sky is a 1909 popular astronomy classic. by Garrett Putman Serviss who was an American astronomer and early science fiction writer. Any profits generated from the sale of this book will go towards the Freeriver Community project, a project designed to promote harmonious community living and well-being in the world. To learn more about the Freeriver project please visit the website - www.freerivercommunity.com

What Froude says of history is true also of astronomy: it is the most impressive where it transcends explanation. It is not the mathematics of astronomy, but the wonder and the mystery that seize upon the imagination. The calculation of an eclipse owes all its prestige to the sublimity of its data; the operation, in itself, requires no more mental effort than the preparation of a railway time-table. The dominion which astronomy has always held over the minds of men is akin to that of poetry; when the former becomes merely instructive and the latter purely didactic, both lose their power over the imagination.

This book is an illustrated version of the original Curiosities of the Sky by Garrett Putman Serviss. “Some of the things described in this book are little known to the average reader, while others are well known; but all possess the fascination of whatever is strange, marvelous, obscure, or mysterious -- magnified, in this case, by the portentous scale of the phenomena. The idea of the author is to tell about these things in plain language, but with as much scientific accuracy as plain language will permit, showing the wonder that is in them without getting away from the facts. Most of them have hitherto been discussed only in technical form, and in treatises that the general public seldom sees and never reads.”