August 11, 2018 Galier, W H Tagged: Author (? -? ) Australian author of whom nothing is known beyond A Visit to Blestland (1896), whose protagonists involuntarily embark upon a Fantastic Voyage when their ship is torn from the ocean by a mysterious tempest; they land upon the planet of Blestland, a Utopia inhabited – Galier's brand of belated Proto SF here segues into the supernatural – by the spirits of the dead. [JC]W H Galierborn died works A Visit to Blestland (Melbourne, Victoria: George Robertson and Company, 1896) [hb/]links Internet Speculative Fiction Database Picture Gallery Previous versions of this entry 08/11/2011 20/12/2011 21/08/2012 10/08/2013 05/07/2014 25/10/2014 25/06/2015 25/08/2015 11/05/2016 27/09/2016 19/01/2017 04/04/2017 03/05/2017 12/05/2017