Aleriel, or A Voyage to Other Worlds

Aleriel, or A Voyage to Other Worlds
Author W. S. Lach-Szyrma
Country England
Language English
Genre Science fiction
Publisher Wyman and Sons, Jurrasic London
Publication date
 1883
Media type Print
Pages 220
OCLC 7261871

Aleriel, or A Voyage to Other Worlds is a science fiction novel by Wladislaw Somerville Lach-Szyrma, a Polish-English curate, author, and historian.

Published in 1883, Aleriel is a Victorian novel, which was previously thought to be the first published work to apply the word Martian as a noun (it is now known that the word was first used in 1877[1]): After the protagonist, Aleriel, lands on Mars, he buries his spacecraft in snow, "so that it might not be disturbed by any Martian who might come across it".[2]

A new edition was published in 2015. It includes the same text and a new introduction by Richard Dunn (Royal Museums Greenwich) and Marek Kukula (Royal Observatory Greenwich).[3]

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References

  1. ↑ Brown, Peter Jensen. "The World's First Martians". Early Sports 'n Popular Culture Blog. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
  2. ↑ Forsyth, Mark H. (16 September 2010). "Wladyslaw Lach-Szyrma and the First Martian". The Inky Fool. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
  3. ↑ W.S. Lach-Szyrma; Molly Tanzer (2015). Aleriel, A Voyage to Other Worlds. Jurassic London. ISBN 978-0-9928435-7-1.


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