Featured on PDR in the collection Sara Weiss’ Journeys to the Planet Mars (1903)

A wide gulf exists in our imagination between the Spiritualism of the nineteenth century and the post–WWII era of UFOs and interplanetary visitors. One bears the gothic sheen of the Victorian era, with its séances and table rappings, its belief in a “Summerland” where the dead repose peacefully and happily, ready to reach out to us from beyond the grave and offer us solace and wisdom. The other is a world of futuristic chrome and light, of mysterious objects in the sky, of men from Mars and Venus stepping out of spacecraft to offer us friendship and untold technological advances.