'A Columbus of Space' is a glorious story of adventure on Venus,
published in 1909 and written by Garrett P. Serviss. This is first story
ever reported about an atomic powered spacecraft. It is an precarious
thriller written at a time when Venus was still doubted to only show one
hemisphere to the Sun and Venusian life was still regard to be possible.
The heroes of this, were in the middle of the cosmos, they were amazed
when they saw the Earth. He is the first to take edge to the power of
inter-atomic energy, which allows him to steer the Ocean of Ether and
sale to the beaches of another world than ours. He builds a curious
spool-shaped machine and sets sail into space, arriving with his
companion on the planet Venus. Courageous travellers from each journey
to the planet Venus, which always has one side facing the Sun. The night
side is a frozen polar wasteland occupied by Neanderthal like humanoids,
while the light side has an advanced, Greco-Roman classical type
civilization. This is a tour to Venus on a craft that can travel a
superb speed and is charged by something that sounds perhaps nuclear.