A Prophetic Romance: Mars to Earth is an 1896 utopian novel written by John McCoy and published pseudonymously as the work of "The Lord Commissioner," the narrator of the tale.

[1] The book is one element in the major wave of utopian and dystopian literature that characterized the final decades of the nineteenth century.

[2][3][4] The story is written in a form resembling an epistolary novel: it consists of a series of reports from a Martian government official, the Lord Commissioner.

The time of the story is not specified, though details in the text suggest the late twentieth century, about a hundred years after the book's publication.

American society has been reformulated after a revolution around the turn of the twentieth century, when irate citizens blew up the Capitol and its congressmen.