Fairburn, Edwin
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1827-1911) New Zealand land surveyor, painter and author whose sf novel, The Ships of Tarshish: Being a Sequel to the "Wandering Jew" (1867 [but see Checklist]) as by Mohoao, which may be the first published novel by a native of New Zealand, is a kind of Future War tale in which an English descendant of the Wandering Jew saves beleaguered Britain with his futuristic ironclads (see Inventions). A sequel, The Ships of the Future: Being an Epilogue to The Ships of Tarshish (1889 chap), is essentially a speculative essay. [JC]
Edwin Fairburn
born Paihia, Bay of Islands, New Zealand: 27 April 1827
died 9 December 1911
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Tarshish
- The Ships of Tarshish; Being a Sequel to the "Wandering Jew" (London: Hall and Co, 1867) as by Mohoao [an inserted author's note, dated 1884, indicates that the book was not put on sale in 1867: arguably, the listed edition is an 1884 release or reprint: Tarshish: hb/]
- The Ships of the Future: Being an Epilogue to The Ships of Tarshish by Mohoao (Auckland, New Zealand: Upton and Co, 1889) [chap: Tarshish: pb/]
nonfiction
- Deluge of Genesis True. Universal Gravitation not True. Etc. (Auckland, New Zealand: Arthur Cleave and Co, 1908) [nonfiction: chap: pb/]
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