 |
Garrett P. Serviss
Books and Stories
Garrett Putnam Serviss (b. 1851 - d. 1929) was an American journalist, amateur (but knowledgeable) astronomer and writer who majored in science at Cornell University, then studied law, and only around 1874 entered journalism, achieving some fame, writing as the "Sun's Astronomer", for a column on Astronomy in the New York Sun between 1876 and 1892. At the end of 1897 he was commissioned to write an unofficial sequel to the unofficial 1897 US newspaper revision of H G Wells's "The War of the Worlds" which – in the absence of adequate copyright protection – set the action in America. Serviss's "sequel", "Edison's Conquest of Mars" first appeared in 1898 in the New York Evening Journal as "The Conquest of Mars".Select a novel or story title to see the inventions from that work:
Edison's Conquest of Mars, New York Evening Journal, 1898
Science Fiction in the News:
Brin's 1990 Novel Earth Still Full Of Predictions (4/20/2024)
'Whisper Mode' ala Blue Thunder Researched At Bristol (4/18/2024)
Gaia - Why Stop With Just The Earth? (4/18/2024)
Microsoft VASA-1 Creates Personal Video From A Photo (4/14/2024)
Splendid View Of Eclipse From Orbit Visualized And Repurposed By Arthur C. Clarke (4/12/2024)
Bespoke Environment Music From AIs (4/10/2024)
Goldene - A Two-Dimensional Sheet Of Gold One Atom Thick (4/8/2024)
SpaceX Wants A Moonbase Alpha (4/6/2024)
Vast Apartment Living Will Get Even More Vast (4/4/2024)
NASA Wants Self-Driving Or Remote-Controlled Vehicles For Lunar Astronauts (4/2/2024)
