Symzonia; Voyage of Discovery

1820 Seaborn, Captain Adam [pseud.]. Symzonia; Voyage of Discovery. New-York: Ptd. by J. Seymour. 248 pp. Rpt. as Symzonia; Voyage of Discovery (1820). By Captain Adam Seaborn Pseudonym of John Cleves Symmes. Gainesville, FL: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1975 with an unpaged “Introduction” by J.O. Bailey; and New York: Arno Press, 1965 with the author as John Cleaves [sic] Symmes (Captain Adam Seaborn, pseud.). The book has traditionally almost universally been attributed to John Cleves Symmes (1780-1829), for whom it is named, but the attribution is no longer accepted--see “The Authorship of Symzonia.” Science-Fiction Studies 3 (March 1976): 98-99; and Hans-Joachim Lang and Benjamin Lease, “The Authorship of Symzonia: The Case for Nathaniel Ames.” New England Quarterly 48.2 (June 1975): 241-52. An apparently unpublished article has made a strong case for Captain Henry Austin (1782-1852). HRC, PSt, W1,2326 

Eutopia. Land in the center of the earth. A society ruled by the Good, the Wise, and the Useful. The dull, the indolent, and the selfish had been driven out. Presumably a U.S. author.