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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
You will enjoy this if you like old-fashioned space voyages, witty banter, and strange worlds that hold up a mirror to Earth.
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- An unexpected visit changes Zaidie's course
- Zaidie chooses to remain aboard
- The new force first serves peace
- The Moon reveals a world's decline
- Mars separates intelligence from human feeling
- Zaidie leaves goodness rather than spoils it
- Ganymede meets decline with curiosity
- Saturn brings wonder and renewed danger
- Their bond gives the voyage meaning
Who’s who
- Lord RedgraveAn English earl and engineer who builds the Astronef and wants to win Zaidie while showing her father's dream is real.
- Zaidie RennickA quick, brave American graduate, promised to a marquis, who wants to choose her own husband and see other worlds.
- Andrew MurgatroydThe grim, devout Yorkshire engineer whose family has served the Redgraves for seven hundred years and who guards the engines.
- Mrs. Van StuylerA proper matron and chaperone who is horrified by the kidnapping and refuses to join the voyage through space.
- Captain HawkinsThe captain of the St. Louis, who greets the airship with disbelief and passes on news of Zaidie's engagement.
- Russell RennickZaidie's rich uncle, made wealthy by the ice trade, who has arranged her marriage to the Marquis of Byfleet.
- Marquis of ByfleetA wasteful nobleman whom Zaidie's uncle has chosen for her, valued for his title and his coming marriage.
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A Honeymoon in Space
by George Chetwynd Griffith · 1901
A black speck crosses the rising sun, and an English earl steps from an airship onto a liner's bridge.
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What would you do if a black speck crossed the rising sun and then began to swim toward your ship? That is the morning of November 5, 1900, aboard the American liner St. Louis.
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- 58,700 words
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- 1901by George Chetwynd Griffith
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An airship meets a liner mid-ocean
The story begins with a puzzle on the water. Officers on the St. Louis watch a black mark cross the rising sun.
A fair-haired man in gray flannel greets the captain and calls it a trial trip before a journey round the Solar System. He is Rollo Aubrey, Earl of Redgrave, a rich peer who has crossed on this very ship five times. He explains that war is close, and he warns the captain to steer well north of the Channel, where enemy cruisers may be waiting.
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Griffith, George Chetwynd. A Honeymoon in Space. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/a-honeymoon-in-space.
Griffith, G. C. (2026). A honeymoon in space. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/a-honeymoon-in-space (Original work published 1901)
Griffith, George Chetwynd. A Honeymoon in Space. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/a-honeymoon-in-space.
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What is A Honeymoon in Space about?
It follows Lord Redgrave and his bride Zaidie as they tour the Solar System in an airship called the Astronef, visiting the Moon, Mars, Venus, Jupiter's moons and Saturn, and meeting strange peoples and creatures on each.
What is the Astronef and how does it fly?
The Astronef is a metal and glass vessel built from Professor Rennick's ideas. It uses the R. Force, a repulsive form of gravity, so a wheel can cancel weight and let the ship rise, drop or cross space.
Who is Murgatroyd in A Honeymoon in Space?
Andrew Murgatroyd is the engineer, a devout Yorkshireman whose family has served the Redgraves for seven hundred years. He tends the engines and speaks plainly, worrying that the trip tempts Providence.
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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