TY - BOOK AU - Geiger,Carl Ignaz TI - Reise eines Erdbewohners in den Mars AV - PT PY - 2014/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Voyages, Imaginary -- Fiction KW - Space flight to Mars -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reise_eines_Erdbewohners_in_den_Mars; Release date is 2014-12-06; Produced by Jens Sadowski, based on page scans provided by The Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Reise eines Erdbewohners in den Mars" by Carl Ignaz Geiger is a satirical utopian short novel published in 1790. The anonymous narrator undertakes an interplanetary balloon voyage to Mars, where he encounters a civilization divided into four distinct states. As he journeys from one Martian society to another, he witnesses religious dogmatism, militaristic oppression, and finally a communal paradise without private property. Yet even utopia cannot overcome the pull of home. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47547 ER -