@booklet {7654, title = {"Letters from the Planets"}, howpublished = {Cassell{\textquoteright}s Family Magazine }, volume = {13 }, year = {1887}, note = {

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\&$\#$39;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.

}, month = {January, April, August, October 1887}, pages = {121-23, 311-13, 556-58, 668-69}, abstract = {

The October 1887 story depicts Venus as an Athenian democracy. See also 1874 and 1883 Lach-Szyrma.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {[Wladjslaw Somerville] [Lach-Szyrma] (1841-1915)} } @booklet {7585, title = {Aleriel; or, A Voyage to Other Worlds. A Tale}, year = {1883}, month = {1883}, publisher = {Wyman and Sons}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Eutopia. Continuation of his 1874 A Voice From Another World. See also his 1887 \"Letters from the Planets.\" Includes a voyage around the solar system with visits to Mars and Venus (both eutopias), Earth, the Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, and some of the moons of the latter two. The eutopias are both based on religion. He describes the eutopia on Venus as one of the perfection of \"a future state\" (i. e. heaven) and the one on Mars as \"a more practical Utopia, implying the tendencies of human progress, and suggesting improvements for human society as it now exists\" (viii).

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Rev. W[ladjslaw] S[omerville] Lach-Szyrma (1841-1915)} } @booklet {7516, title = {A Voice From Another World}, year = {1874}, month = {1874}, publisher = {James Parker}, address = {Oxford, Eng.}, abstract = {

A Christian eutopia stressing science, art and religion. Little or no political, economic, or social material. Written in 1865. See also 1883 and 1887 Lach-Szyrma.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {W[ladislaw] S[omerville] L[ach]-S[zyrma] (1841-1915)} }