Fantastic Worlds serves as the online companion collection to the Smithsonian Libraries exhibit, Fantastic Worlds: Science and Fiction 1780-1910. Here readers will find works of science-based fiction written over a period of 130 years when physics, geography, biology, and the steam engine were transforming our relationship with the planet. By selecting the titles, readers may enter these various works, which are often gorgeously illustrated and always fascinating. For instance, Sara Weiss's Journeys to the planet Mars, or, Our mission to Ento, published in 1903, offers an interesting exploration of what the red planet might be like, and may be read in its entirety on this site. Readers can also link to the exhibit itself, which is available through 2017, by selecting the bolded blue link, "Fantastic Worlds: Science and Fiction 1780-1910" on the landing page.