"The End of the World"
| Title | "The End of the World" |
| Year for Search | 1903 |
| Authors | Newcomb, Simon(1835-1909) |
| Secondary Title | McClure's Magazine |
| Volume / Edition | 21.1 |
| Pagination | 3-14 |
| Date Published | May 1903 |
| Keywords | Canadian author, Male author, US author |
| Annotation | A complacent eutopia with an easily enforced international law, little news, and one language is unable to respond to a potential catastrophe. See also 1900 Newcomb. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in The London Magazine 15 (August 1905): 143-152; The Battle of the Monsters and Other Stories: An Anthology of American Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and L[loyd] W. Currey (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976), 181-95; in Visions From the Edge: An Anthology of Atlantic Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. John Bell and Lesley Choyce (Porters Lake, NS, Canada: Pottersfield Press, 1981), 34-44 with an editor’s note on 33; and The End of the World and Other Catastrophes. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 151-68, with an editor’s note on 149. |
| Info Notes | See also 1900 Newcomb. |
| Holding Institutions | Can, PSt |
| Author Note | The author (1835-1909) was born in Canada and moved to the U.S. in 1853 where he became a professor at Johns Hopkins University and a Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy. |
| Full Text | 1903 Newcomb, Simon (1835-1909). “The End of the World.” McClure’s Magazine 21.1 (May 1903): 3-14. Rpt. in The London Magazine 15 (August 1905): 143-152; The Battle of the Monsters and Other Stories: An Anthology of American Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and L[loyd] W. Currey (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976), 181-95; in Visions From the Edge: An Anthology of Atlantic Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. John Bell and Lesley Choyce (Porters Lake, NS, Canada: Pottersfield Press, 1981), 34-44 with an editor’s note on 33; and The End of the World and Other Catastrophes. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 151-68, with an editor’s note on 149. Can, PSt A complacent eutopia with an easily enforced international law, little news, and one language is unable to respond to a potential catastrophe. See also 1900 Newcomb. The author was born in Canada and moved to the U.S. in 1853 where he became a professor at Johns Hopkins University and a Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy. |
