Politics and Life in Mars: A Story of a Neighbouring Planet
| Title | Politics and Life in Mars: A Story of a Neighbouring Planet |
| Year for Search | 1883 |
| Authors | [Welch], [Edgar Luderne](1856/7-1926) |
| Date Published | 1883 |
| Publisher | Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington |
| Place Published | London |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | Eutopia and satire on contemporary England; the main country on Mars is Ourownland, and many obvious parallels to England are pointed out. But Mars is republican; women are equal; there is a limit on personal property; and there are cooperatives owned by the workers. |
| Info Notes | In his Victorian Science Fiction in the UK: the Discourses of Knowledge and of Power. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1983 Darko Suvin, questions the attribution to Welch based on the political viewpoint of this book in contrast to his other SF (34-35), which he attributes to me. I got it from George Locke's A Spectrum of Fantasy: The Bibliography and Biography of a collection of Fantastic Literature (London: Ferret Fantasy, 1980), 18. |
| Holding Institutions | L |
| Author Note | (1856/7-1926) |
| Full Text | 1883 [Welch, Luderne Edgar] (1856/7-1926). Politics and Life in Mars: A Story of a Neighbouring Planet. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington. In his Victorian Science Fiction in the UK: the Discourses of Knowledge and of Power. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1983 Darko Suvin, questions the attribution to Welch based on the political viewpoint of this book in contrast to his other SF (34-35), which he attributes to me. I got it from George Locke’s A Spectrum of Fantasy: The Bibliography and Biography of a collection of Fantastic Literature (London: Ferret Fantasy, 1980), 18. L Eutopia and satire on contemporary England; the main country on Mars is Ourownland, and many obvious parallels to England are pointed out. But Mars is republican; women are equal; there is a limit on personal property; and there are cooperatives owned by the workers. |
