Edison's Conquest of Mars

What happens when the world's greatest inventor wages war on the Red Planet? In this audacious 1898 adventure, Thomas Edison leads humanity's daring counterattack against the Martians who devastated England. Picking up where H.G. Wells left off, Garrett Serviss imagines a world where American ingenuity and industrial might become humanity's ultimate weapon. Edison builds impossible weapons, rockets across the solar system, and wages guerrilla warfare on Martian soil. It's a glorious power fantasy: a celebration of turn-of-the-century faith that American genius can conquer any foe, even the stars. Bizarre, thrilling, and occasionally absurd, this is science fiction as nationalist adventure tale, a fascinating relic of an era that believed technology and determination could solve anything.