Fairman, Henry Clay
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1848-1899) US lawyer, editor and author whose Lost World novel, The Third World: A Tale of Love and Strange Adventure (21 April-October [or later] 1894 The Sunny South; 1895) oddly (though crudely) prefigures Dan Simmons's The Terror (2007) in depicting the rescue by an Eskimo of the last survivor of the John Franklin expedition (circa 1850), who then finds a 150 mile passage into a Hollow Earth enclave directly under the North Pole, whose inhabitants are advanced, though they suffer (as usual) under a monarchy, and where he becomes involved with a highborn maiden. Less usually – the novel in fact advocates female suffrage (see Feminism; Women in SF) – he remains there. [JC]
Henry Clay Fairman
born Copiah County, Mississippi: 1848
died Atlanta, Georgia: 6 October 1899
works
- The Third World: A Tale of Love and Strange Adventure (Atlanta, Georgia: The Third World Publishing Co, 1895) [first appeared 21 April-October [or later] 1894 The Sunny South: hb/]
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