The October 1887 story depicts Venus as an Athenian democracy. See also 1874 and 1883 Lach-Szyrma.
BT - Cassell's Family Magazine C3 -Our Roving Correspondent [pseud.], Signed Alerial [pseud.]
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C6 -The author was an Anglican clergyman (1841-1915).
C7 - January, April, August, October 1887 DA - 01/1887 LA - eng N1 -The stories from April and October are rpt. as “Letters from Mars.” in Lost Mars: The Golden Age of the Red Planet. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2018), 53-72 with an editor’s not on 51-52. The U. S. ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018 has the subtitle: Stories from the Golden Age of the Red Planet. Series continued as "The Portals of the King of Day. A Journey To the Regions of the Sun." 14 (January 1888): 96-98; "Our Second Voyage to Mars." 15 (February 1889): 166-70; "Letters from the Planets--Canal Life on Mars." 16 (February 1890): 285-87; "A Trip to Jupiter's Moonlet." 18 (December 1891): 55-56; and "Corresponding With the Planets." 19 (June 1893): 403-05. Entire series rpt. in Worlds Apart: An Anthology in Facsimile [Cover subtitle An Anthology of Interplanetary Fiction]. Ed. George Locke (London: Cornmarket Reprints, 1972), 1-26.
N2 -The October 1887 story depicts Venus as an Athenian democracy. See also 1874 and 1883 Lach-Szyrma.
PY - 1887 SP - 121 EP - 23 SP - 311 EP - 13 SP - 556 EP - 58 SP - 668 EP - 69 T2 - Cassell's Family Magazine TI - "Letters from the Planets" VL - 13 ER -