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A Honeymoon in Space
When British aristocrat Lord Redgrave kidnaps the woman he loves aboard his anti-gravity spaceship, their marriage becomes the strangest honeymoon imaginable—a grand tour of the Solar System.
"A Honeymoon in Space" by George Chetwynd Griffith is a novel. When British aristocrat Lord Redgrave kidnaps the woman he loves aboard his anti-gravity spaceship, their marriage becomes the strangest honeymoon imaginable—a grand tour of the Solar System.
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About eight o'clock on the morning of the 5th of November, 1900, those of the passengers and crew of the American liner St. Louis who happened, whether from causes of duty or of their own pleasure, to be on deck, had a very strange—in fact a quite unprecedented experience.
The big ship was ploughing her way through the long, smooth rollers at her average twenty-one knots towards the rising sun, when the officer in charge of the navigating bridge happened to turn his glasses straight ahead. He took them down from his eyes, rubbed the two object-glasses with the cuff of his coat, and looked again. The sun was shining through a haze which so far dimmed the solar disc that it was possible to look straight at it without inconvenience to the eyes.
The officer took another long squint, put his glasses down, rubbed his eyes and took another, and murmured, "Well I'm damned!"
Just then the Fourth Officer came up on to the bridge to relieve his senior while he went down for a cup of coffee and a biscuit. The Second took him away to the other end of the bridge, out of hearing of the helmsman and the quartermaster standing by, and said almost in a whisper:
Contents
- 01List of Illustrations
- 02Prologue
- 03The First Cruise of the Astronef
- 04Chapter I
- 05Chapter II
- 06Chapter III
- 07Chapter IV
- 08Chapter V
- 09Chapter VI
- 10Chapter VII
- 11Chapter VIII
- 12A hideous shape rose out of the water behind them.
- 13Chapter IX
- 14Chapter X
- 15It took the strange-winged craft amidships.
- 16Chapter XI
- 17Chapter XII
- 18Snow peaks and cloud seas.
- 19Chapter XIII
- 20Chapter XIV
- 21Came forward to meet them with both hands outstretched.
- 22Chapter XV
- 23Chapter XVI
- 24Whole mountain ranges of glowing lava were hurled up miles high.
- 25Chapter XVII
- 26Without any apparent effort he raised her about five feet from the floor.
- 27Chapter XVIII
- 28The huge palely luminous eyes looked in upon them.
- 29Chapter XIX
- 30Chapter XX
- 31Epilogue
About this edition
- Author
- George Chetwynd Griffith
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 207 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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