Aleriel, or A Voyage to Other Worlds
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Aleriel, or A Voyage to Other Worlds is an 1883
Wladislaw Somerville Lach-Szyrma, a Polish-English curate
, author, and historian.
The book is an expanded version of Lach-Szyrma's earlier work
Published in 1883, Aleriel is a
Martian as a noun (it is now known that the word had been so used as early as 1869[3][4]): After the protagonist, Aleriel, lands on Mars, he buries his spacecraft in snow, "so that it might not be disturbed by any Martian who might come across it".[5] The novel portrays Venus and Mars as utopias, Jupiter and Saturn as primitive, and the Moon as desolate.[6]
A new edition was published in 2015. It includes the same text and a new introduction by Richard Dunn (
Royal Observatory Greenwich).[7]
See also
References
- ISBN 978-0-87338-416-2.
- ^ "Lach-Szyrma, W S". The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Retrieved 2022-02-16.
- ^ "Martian". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
- ^ "Martian". Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction. Retrieved 2022-02-16.
- ^ Forsyth, Mark H. (16 September 2010). "Wladyslaw Lach-Szyrma and the First Martian". The Inky Fool. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
- ISBN 978-0-8195-7105-2.
- ISBN 978-0-9928435-7-1.
External links
Wikisource has original text related to this article:
- Aleriel, or A Voyage to Other Worlds at the Internet Archive
Aleriel; or A Voyage to Other Worlds public domain audiobook at LibriVox
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