Gaston, H A
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(? -? ) US author of Mars Revealed; Or, Seven days in the Spirit World [for full title see Checklist below] (1880) as by A Spirit Yet in the Flesh, which describes in terms enunciated in the subtitle its protagonist's trip to a Utopian Mars and back again. Not mentioned there are his discovery of high Technology including Airships and Cinema, or that women are superior to men (see Feminism; Women in SF). [JC]
Henry A Gaston
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- Mars Revealed; Or, Seven Days in the Spirit World; Containing an Account of the Spirit's Trip to Mars, and his Return to Earth; What he Saw and Heard on Mars, etc; with Vivid and Thrilling Descriptions of its Majestic Scenery; its Mountains; its Mines; its Valleys, Rivers, Lakes, and Seas; its People, Temples of Learning, Worship, Religion, Music, Manners, Customs, Laws; its Highly Cultivated and Productive Lands; Together with its Beautiful Parks and its Delightful Paradise: Being a Work Full of Diamonds of Thoughts, and of Absorbing Interest: a Thrilling Poem, in Beautiful Prose (San Francisco, California: A L Bancroft, 1880) as by A Spirit Yet in the Flesh [hb/]
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