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Edison’s Conquest of Mars stars Thomas Edison as the lead character, although neither Edison nor H. G. Wells participated in its composition. Situated after the ravaging Martian assault in the past book, the story portrays Edison directing a number of scientists to create crafts and armaments, such as a fragmentation beam, for the protection of the Earth. Edison and his group clash with the creatures from outer space and on Mars, gradually resulting into a flood that white washes the aliens and marks a finality to aggressions. Garrett wrote himself into the tale as an instructor whom Edison refers to. Also presented are scientists including Edward Emerson Barnard, Lord Kelvin, Wilhelm Röntgen, and Silvanus P. Thompson, and heads of state such as Queen Victoria, U.S. President William McKinley, Kaiser Wilhelm II, and Emperor Mutsuhito. This book is part of the chronicle of science fiction for its first inclusion of subject matters that became the substance of the category. Garrett Putnam Serviss was a U. S. astronomer, popularizer of astronomy, and one of the first science fiction authors. He was born in upstate New York and majored in science at Cornell University. He studied law at Columbia University but did not practice as a lawyer. In its place, he associated himself with the staff of the The New York Sun newspaper, as a journalist under editor Charles Dana. Garrett’s much-loved subject was astronomy, and of the fifteen stories he made, eight are dedicated to it. He was indisputably far more read by the people on that subject than any person earlier to his time. He produced with Max and Dave Fleischer on The Einstein Theory of Relativity, a brief silent motion picture publicized in relation to one of Garrett’s science fiction stories. He also made six books, which would now be categorized as science fiction. Five of these were novels, and one was a short literature.
Product ID: 9781776725120
Sku: UW-PVD6-NVN8
