Publisher's Synopsis
Ater described as ""the misplaced large of American science fiction,"" Edward Page Mitchell wrote many science fiction and fable quick testimonies in the 1870's to 1890's, almost all of which have been published anonymously in the The Sun day by day newspaper of New York. Mitchell used to be editor-in-chief of The Sun and used to be a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board for many years.Mitchell delivered many technological and social predictions which have been daring for the time, prior to comparable predictions by means of well-known authors, such as journey by way of pneumatic tube, electrical heating, newspapers printed in the domestic with the aid of electrical transmission, food-pellet concentrates, global broadcasts, suspended animation of a dwelling human being via freezing (cryogenics), a man rendered invisible by means of scientific means, a time-travel machine, faster-than-light travel, a wondering computer, a cyborg, depend transmission or teleportation, balloting through American women, and interracial marriage. His delusion testimonies dabble with the occult and bizarre, involving ghosts, the Devil, masochism, inanimate objects coming to life, and more.
