Synopsis: A quartet who go into space from an Adirondack mountain summit in a spacecraft propelled by explosives. They land on a planet, which has only partly cooled, and they "witness the tremendous changes and convulsions of a tiny world in the process of its rapid development" [Boston Evening Transcript, Dec. 10, 1887, p.5]. The new planet is filled with benevolent flying bird people of vegetable origin, who are born from large pods. They meet various other creatures, and then return to Earth via a comet.