Life in a Thousand Worlds

About this book

A human traveller imagines journeys through inhabited worlds beyond Earth, meeting societies whose customs reveal different possibilities for life and moral growth.

William Shuler Harris combines speculative fiction with religious ideas in an illustrated tour of the cosmos. The planets become places for unusual encounters and reflections on human conduct, seen through the assumptions of the early twentieth century. It is an imaginative record of the era before spacecraft, when a writer could cross the solar system by giving a traveller a sufficiently adventurous spirit.