The Mummy!: A Victorian Tale of the 22nd Century Loudon Jane WebbPaperback
The Mummy!: A Victorian Tale of the 22nd Century Loudon Jane WebbPaperback Within a decade of the 1818 publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, another Englishwoman invented a foundational work of…
Specifikacia The Mummy!: A Victorian Tale of the 22nd Century Loudon Jane WebbPaperback
The Mummy!: A Victorian Tale of the 22nd Century Loudon Jane WebbPaperback
Within a decade of the 1818 publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, another Englishwoman invented a foundational work of science fiction. Unlike Shelley's horrifying, death-dealing monster, this revivified creature bears the wisdom of the ages and is eager to share his insights with humanity. Seventeen-year-old Jane Webb Loudon took up the theme of reanimation, moved it three hundred years into the future, and applied it to Cheops, an ancient Egyptian mummy.
The Mummy envisions a world in which automatons Cheops boards a hot-air balloon and travels to 22nd-century England, where he sets about remedying the ills of a corrupt government.In recounting Cheops' attempts to put the futuristic society to rights, the young author offers a fascinating portrait of the preoccupations of her own era as well as some remarkably prescient predictions of technological advances.