Download or read book A Columbus of Space written by Garrett Putman Serviss and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the 19th century, A man named Stonewall gets his friends to visit his lab where he has been working on the power of the atom, but soon they find themselves travelling on an expedition through space to Venus. Stonewall thinks of himself as the Columbus of space and thinks humanity has been wasting money on steam and electricity, when in fact there is limitless energy in the atom.