Lumen

This book is about the amazing adventures of the soul in the Thin World. The author is a well-known French astronomer of the 19th century who wrote a series of books on astronomy and life in the Thin World. His books enjoyed tremendous popularity. The novel awakens the reader’s imagination with ideas about interplanetary travel at speeds close to that of light—data provided by Einstein in his theory of relativity 30 years later.

Published by the Human Sciences Institute, series “Literature,” vol. 2. Tomsk, “ZNAMEYA MIRA” (Banner of the World), 1995. This is the first publication of the novel in Russia after a century-long break.