Two Planets: A Novel by Kurd Lasswitz

by Kurd Laßwitz

Book Overview

The first English translation of the classic German novel about Utopia created by the technology of the day after tomorrow.

Kurd Lasswitz's 1897 utopian novel describes man's first encounter with beings of higher intelligence from another planet, the inhabitants of Mars. Physically differing little from man, but intellectually, ethically, scientifically, and socially far advanced, the Martians seek to educate man, whom...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809305089
• ISBN13: 9780809305087
• Release Date: November 1971
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"