Aleriel, or A Voyage to Other Worlds

A new edition of Aleriel was published in 2015. It contains a new short story by Molly Tanzer, revealing the unforeseen results of Aleriel's passage through Mars.

A simple country parson finds himself in communication with a super-human Venusian who has visited Earth incognito. Aleriel's description of his explorations of Mars and other planets in our solar system leads the parson to a kind of religious epiphany as he realizes Earth's humble place in the universe.