A recently rediscovered - if incomplete - text, about a man waking in the future to a utopian, telepathic society and then traveling to Venus, in the hope of colonising that planet. The writing style is naturally dated, but there are some interesting elements here, primarily the science of the space voyage. Some of it is incorrect, of course (the story was originally published in 1881, before the idea of a habitable Venusian environment was scuppered in its entirety) but, as the introduction lays out, some of the scientific details were exceptionally ahead of their time.

It ends on a cliffhanger, as the third part of the tale remains lost. The story itself doesn't grab me greatly, but I do find it interesting as a historical artefact, and the lengthy, informative introduction is excellent.