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What if your honeymoon takes you beyond Earth, with the whole solar system waiting outside?
In A Honeymoon in Space, a newly married couple leave Earth in a vessel of their own. Their wedding trip becomes a tour of the worlds around the Sun. George Chetwynd Griffith joins romance and adventure as the travellers exchange familiar sights for strange skies, carrying their new marriage far from home.
The journey tests more than their courage. In close quarters, beyond familiar rules, the couple face one trial after another. Along the way, Griffith blends travel writing with astronomy lessons and a Victorian dream of invention. The Moon and planets reveal how people around 1900 imagine other worlds, while the adventure explores science’s promise and its possible misuse.
What you’ll discover
- A wedding trip without limits Follow newlyweds who choose the sky over an ordinary holiday, turning romance into exploration.
- Worlds along the way Visit the solar system as Griffith imagines it, with each world another stop on the tour.
- Love far from home Watch a new marriage meet unfamiliar trials, where companionship matters as much as courage.
- The daring of invention Explore a vision of science that opens frontiers while leaving room for the misuse of power.
- Yesterday’s imagined future Step into early science fiction, where long descriptions bring imagined moons and planets within reach.
Who will love it
Readers who enjoy early science fiction, planet-hopping adventure and a lively love story, and anyone curious how writers around 1900 pictured Mars, Venus and the giant planets.
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- A black speck crosses the rising sun
- A rich man's niece and a father's dream
- Two ladies vote on being prisoners
- A ship that cancels gravity
- Sound money and a farewell to Earth
- The Moon, a graveyard of giants
- Mars welcomes the visitors with poison
- Venus, the world without sin
- Wonder and caution
- What the voyage is really about
Who’s who
- Lord RedgraveAn English earl and engineer who builds the Astronef from a dead professor's ideas and wants to marry the professor's daughter.
- Zaidie RennickAn American college graduate, quick-witted and brave, who is promised to a marquis but loves the earl.
- Andrew MurgatroydThe Yorkshire engineer whose family has served the Redgraves for centuries and who guards his engines like a devoted worshipper.
- Mrs. Van StuylerZaidie's strict New York chaperone, who is shocked by the abduction but softens when served coffee by an earl.
- Professor RennickZaidie's late father, an inventor whose discovery of repulsive force makes the Astronef possible.
- Russell RennickZaidie's wealthy uncle, who made his fortune in ice trusts and wants his niece to marry a title.
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Luna di miele nello spazio
by George Chetwynd Griffith · 1901
An English earl lands a flying machine beside an Atlantic liner to win back the woman he loves.
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What if the first spaceship arrived on your wedding day? In 1900 an English earl brings a gleaming metal vessel down beside an Atlantic liner, and a romance and a war scare both come aboard.
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A black speck crosses the rising sun
The story opens on the Atlantic on the morning of November 5, 1900. Officers on the bridge of the liner St. Louis watch a dark shape cross the face of the sun, again and again, and grow larger by the minute.
Passengers crowd the deck as a metal vessel sweeps down from the sky. A fair-haired man greets Captain Hawkins from a sliding door. He is Rollo Aubrey, Earl of Redgrave, and the ship is the Astronef.
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What is A Honeymoon in Space about?
It follows Lord Redgrave and his American bride, Zaidie, on a tour of the Solar System aboard the Astronef, a ship that uses repulsive force to cancel gravity. They visit the Moon, Mars, Venus and the moons of Jupiter.
Who is who in A Honeymoon in Space?
Lord Redgrave is the English earl who builds the ship, Zaidie Rennick is the inventor's daughter who becomes his wife, and Andrew Murgatroyd is the loyal engineer. Mrs. Van Stuyler is Zaidie's chaperone.
What is the R. Force in A Honeymoon in Space?
It is the repulsive force that drives the Astronef. Rennick separates gravity into attraction and repulsion. The engines generate repulsion, but their power has limits.
The author
George Chetwynd Griffith
1857–1906 · British science fiction writer
George Chetwynd Griffith was a British science fiction writer and explorer. He was born in Plymouth, England, in 1857 and died at Port Erin on the Isle of Man in 1906. His novels include The Angel of the Revolution, published in 1893, and A Honeymoon in Space, published in 1901.
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