Through the sun in an airship

“It’s rotten, old chap, rotten as a man’s word of honour,” replied Gilbert. “Thank goodness it’s the last of the batch, and I get no more from Flatters. He assured me he had man...

The day following, the three friends met at Dennis’s home, and at once proceeded to the shed in which the stately _Regina_ was housed. On entering, Dennis moved a switch and a r...

From time immemorial it has been the custom to celebrate every special occasion with a more or less gorgeous feast, at which, especially from the eighteenth to the twentieth cen...

“What about the gravity?” observed Ross, at the same time walking across to the gravitometer. “I see it is almost the same as Earth has now and exactly what she used to have. It...

“I knew you’d have to send for me, Dennis, old man!” exclaimed Godfrey Spenser, as he flung open the door, threw his coat on a seat close by from which it fell unheeded to the f...

From the moon Luna the good ship sailed straight for the brilliant Jupiter, the giant planet of the solar system, passing Mars and numerous planetoids on the way. It was almost...

Jupiter now lay before them as they pointed straight for his surface, and the Martian warrior soon recovered sufficiently to walk to the window and watch the great belted mass....

Having arrived at Derwent the four wanderers dedicated a few rooms at Dennis’s house for use as a laboratory. By this means the project could proceed without exciting notice and...

No bomb could have been more startling than the simple statement from the _Regina_. Surely there must be some mistake, or the men were mad, for who in their senses would think o...

Almost the first thing to excite comment amongst the visitors was the appearance of the stars. On Earth stars are seen above and around, as if the spectator were placed in the c...

Godfrey was a kind of gentleman visitor, free to work or not as he chose. His work had been done in being the means of providing the net, and he was enjoying a well-earned repos...

Instantly everybody rushed to the laboratory, to find that though no one was injured much damage had been done to the apparatus, and on inquiry it transpired that Gilbert had pr...

“Not here!” replied Gilbert, mystified; “the ship’s all right, everything is in perfect order and working splendidly. What’s gone wrong we’ve to find out. We have come on a stra...

There were no inhabitants anywhere in sight, and the general appearance of the landscape was flat, the country stretching away in beautiful rolls of heath, broken only by the sm...

As the _Regina_ arose amongst the flames or protuberances of the planet they were leaving, they saw several violent eruptions, the dense masses of flames in the chromosphere bei...

“At length corruption, like a general flood, So long by watchful ministers withstood, Shall deluge all; and avarice creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist and blot the sun.” (...

The day following the stormy meeting on board the _Regina_ nothing of moment transpired, and only the strongest faith in the _Regina’s_ powers made them know that, although unse...