Mitchell introduced many technological and social predictions which were daring for the time, prior to similar predictions by famous authors.
These tales segue from science fiction and weird science (faster-than-light travel, matter transmission, cybernetics, cryogenic preservation, time travel); through fantasy (hollow Earth, a future war, devils and demons); to the supernatural (ghosts, haunted and possessed ships, mind transfer, twins psychic connection). Sometimes the borders overlap considerably.
The reader will be well entertained along the way by substantial helpings of humor and satire.)
These tales segue from science fiction and weird science (faster-than-light travel, matter transmission, cybernetics, cryogenic preservation, time travel); through fantasy (hollow Earth, a future war, devils and demons); to the supernatural (ghosts, haunted and possessed ships, mind transfer, twins psychic connection). Sometimes the borders overlap considerably.
The reader will be well entertained along the way by substantial helpings of humor and satire.)
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Edward Page Mitchell (18521927) was an American editorial and short story writer for the New York Sun newspaper, later becoming its chief editor.
Mitchell was recognized as a major figure in the early development of the science fiction genre. According to Sam Moskowitz, respected writer, critic, and historian of science fiction, (and editor of Mitchells The Crystal Man collection, 1973), who must be given credit for re-discovering him, Mitchell was the missing link in American science fiction, the man who bridged the gap between Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, and probably influenced the latter.
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These stories first appeared in the New York Sun newspaper 1874 ~ 1886, with the exception of The Tachypomp, which appeared in Scribners Magazine Apr. 1874. This book is in the public domain where copyright is Life+90 or less, and in the USA.
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