"In the Deep of Time"
| Title | "In the Deep of Time" |
| Year for Search | 1897 |
| Authors | Lathrop, George(1851-98) |
| Secondary Title | English Illustrated Magazine |
| Volume / Edition | 16 - 17.162 - 163 |
| Pagination | 679-693; 81-91 |
| Date Published | March - April 1897 |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | A man is put to sleep for three hundred years and awakens in a technological eutopia in communication with Mars, which is in advance of earth. World federalism without democracy. No one lived in cities except by government draft. If a person is exceptional, the government chooses who they will marry. "Degenerates," on the other hand, were kept in asylums and not allowed to marry. The author's note says that the story is based on conversations with the inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), and Edison provided notes to Lathrop, who wrote the story. Thirty-three pages of Edison’s notes for the story can be found in the Thomas A. Edison Papers at Rutgers University (http://edison.rutgers.edu/index.htm). |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in Worlds Apart: An Anthology in Facsimile [Cover subtitle An Anthology of Interplanetary Fiction]. Ed. George Locke (London: Cornmarket, 1972), 47-72. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | (1851-98) |
| Full Text | 1897 Lathrop, George Parsons (1851-98). “In the Deep of Time.” English Illustrated Magazine 16 – 17.162 - 163 (March - April 1897): 679-693; 81-91. Rpt. in Worlds Apart: An Anthology in Facsimile [Cover subtitle An Anthology of Interplanetary Fiction]. Ed. George Locke (London: Cornmarket, 1972), 47-72. PSt A man is put to sleep for three hundred years and awakens in a technological eutopia in communication with Mars, which is in advance of earth. World federalism without democracy. No one lived in cities except by government draft. If a person is exceptional, the government chooses who they will marry. “Degenerates,” on the other hand, were kept in asylums and not allowed to marry. The author’s note says that the story is based on conversations with the inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), and Edison provided notes to Lathrop, who wrote the story. Thirty-three pages of Edison’s notes for the story can be found in the Thomas A. Edison Papers at Rutgers University (http://edison.rutgers.edu/index.htm). |
