TY - ABST T1 - “The Junction of the Ocean. A Tale of the Year 2098” Y1 - 1835 A1 - Henry Meredith Parker (1796-1868) KW - English author KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

Disaster/dystopian story told by a survivor. The construction of the Panama Canal produces a massive flood when the two oceans come together, ultimately inundating most of the world. 

JF - Bengal Annual; A Literary Keepsake for 1835 SN - 978-78-308863-8 UR - https://archive.org/details/boleponjisconta01parkgoog/page/n2/mode/1up N1 -

Rev. in the author’s Bole Ponjis, Containing the Tale of the Buccaneer; A Bottle of Red Ink; The Decline and Fall of Ghosts; and Other Ingredients. 2. vols. (London/Calcutta, India: W. Thacker & Co., 1851), 1: 132-215. https://archive.org/details/boleponjisconta01parkgoog/page/n2/mode/1up; rpt. in Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835-1905: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction and Resistance. Ed. Mary Ellis Gibson (London: Anthem Press, 2019), 38-75, with an editor’s introduction on 29-37. 

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