The ecology of the waterways of Mars by Liza Daly profile 2023 Web Site

About the Story

This short reference excerpt uses language and words from the Spiritualist novel "Journeys to the Planet Mars" (1903).

The original was purported to be transmitted psychically by the spirit medium Sara Weiss through automatic writing and drawing. It features rich worldbuilding and an extensive "Martian" language guide, some of which is quoted here.

Weiss's original drawings were in color, but could not be reproduced as such in the book. I hand-colored her images based on color clues in the novel and in contemporary interviews.

A companion biographical piece on Weiss and the novel's puzzlingly sincere plot can be found on my portfolio site as Journeys to the Planet Mars.

The ecology of the waterways of Mars by Liza Daly is marked with CC0 1.0.

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