Name: The Mummy!: A Victorian Tale of the 22nd Century (en Inglés)
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Author: Loudon, Jane Webb
ISBN: 9780486815794

portada The Mummy!: A Victorian Tale of the 22nd Century (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Dover Publications

Autor

Loudon, Jane Webb

Idioma

Inglés

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21.3 x 14.0 x 2.0 cm

Peso

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9780486815794

Categorías

Ficción clásica
Ficción sobre distopías y utopías
Apocalíptica y postapocalíptica

The Mummy!: A Victorian Tale of the 22nd Century (en Inglés)

Loudon, Jane Webb (Autor) · Dover Publications · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "The Mummy!: A Victorian Tale of the 22nd Century (en Inglés)"

Within a decade of the 1818 publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, another Englishwoman invented a foundational work of science fiction. Seventeen-year-old Jane Webb Loudon took up the theme of reanimation, moved it three hundred years into the future, and applied it to Cheops, an ancient Egyptian mummy. Unlike Shelley's horrifying, death-dealing monster, this revivified creature bears the wisdom of the ages and is eager to share his insights with humanity. Cheops boards a hot-air balloon and travels to 22nd-century England, where he sets about remedying the ills of a corrupt government.In recounting Cheops' attempts to put the futuristic society to rights, the young author offers a fascinating portrait of the preoccupations of her own era as well as some remarkably prescient predictions of technological advances. The Mummy! envisions a world in which automatons perform surgery, undersea tunnels connect England and Ireland, weather-control devices provide crop irrigation, and messages are transmitted with the speed of cannonball fire. The first novel to feature the concept of a living mummy, this pioneering tale offers an engaging mix of comedy, politics, and science fiction.