The World's Last Wonder (1901)
Item
- Title of Story
- The World's Last Wonder (1901)
- Story Summary
- Australia's first space opera (planetary fiction) featuring two antagonistic space cars in a race to Mars. First published 1901. Vintage Science Fiction from historical Australian newspapers.
- Science Fiction Subgenres
- Advanced Race
- Colonial
- Exploration
- Alien First Contact
- Invention Opera
- Planetary
- Space Fiction
- Space Opera
- Xeno
- Inventions
-
Radiomotor
Spacecar
Earthquake Detector (though may operate as a radar)
- Similar Science Fiction
- Out of the Silent Planet (1938) C. S. Lewis
- The Sands of Mars (1951) Arthur C. Clarke
- Solaris (1961 Polish) Stanisław Lem
- Rocannon's World (1966) Ursula K. Le Guin
- Mars (1992) Ben Bova
-
Story of Your Life (1998) Ted Chiang
(Also Arrival (movie) 2016) - How this Story was Identified
- Keycloud
- KeyClouds
-
gravity scientist interplanetary
2 found, one discarded as not science fiction. - Related Paratext
- Advertisement for a guidebook to patenting inventions.
- Additional Information
- "'For the Tocsin"
- Attributed Author
- Unattributed (Later attributed to John Arthur Andrews)
- Author Gender
- Male (AustLit) https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A14050
- Nationality
-
Australian
After determining that it must have been written by John Arthur Andrews - Biographical and Other Sources
- John Arthur Andrews Biography at ADB
- John Arthur Andrews Biography at AustLit
- Single or Serialised
- Serialised
- Date Range
- 1901-02-14-1901-05-16
- Number of Installments
- 14
- Complete or Supplemented
- Complete
- Estimated Word Count
- 19,400
- Length
- Novella
- Links in To Be Continued
- The World's Last Wonder Chapters at To Be Continued: The Australian Newspaper Fiction Database.
- Links to Trove
-
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/197525101
The World's Last Wonder Chapter I. Thursday 14 February 1901 page 7. The Tocsin
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/197527783
The World's Last Wonder Chapter II Thursday 21 February 1901 page 6. The Tocsin Newspaper.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/197523678
The World's Last Wonder Chapter III Thursday 28 February 1901 page 9. The Tocsin Newspaper.
The World's Last Wonder Chapter IV Thursday 7 March 1901. The Tocsin Newspaper. This is is not available on Trove at this time
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/197525761
The World's Last Wonder Chapter V Thursday 14 March 1901 page 6. The Tocsin Newspaper.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/197526718
The World's Last Wonder Chapter VI Thursday 21 March 1901 page 6. The Tocsin Newspaper.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/197523711
The World's Last Wonder Chapter VII Thursday 28 March 1901 page 8. The Tocsin Newspaper.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/197527350
The World's Last Wonder Chapter VIII Thursday 4 April 1901 page 3. The Tocsin Newspaper.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/197527277
The World's Last Wonder Chapter IX Thursday 11 April 1901 page 3. The Tocsin Newspaper.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/197522625
The World's Last Wonder Chapter X Thursday 18 April 1901 page 2. The Tocsin Newspaper.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/197527920
The World's Last Wonder Chapter XI Thursday 25 April 1901 page 3. The Tocsin Newspaper.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/197524044
The World's Last Wonder Chapter XII Thursday 2 May 1901 page 2. The Tocsin Newspaper.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/197526037
The World's Last Wonder Chapter XIII Thursday 9 May 1901 page 2. The Tocsin Newspaper.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/197527496
The World's Last Wonder Chapter XIV Thursday 16 May 1901 page 2. The Tocsin Newspaper. - Newspaper Name Location Years
- The Tocsin, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1897-1906
- Location Town City
- Melbourne
- Location State Territory
- Victoria
- Provincial or Metro
- Metropolitan
- First Republished on InfiniteAnthologies.com
- YES
- General Subjects
- science fiction
- vintage science fiction
- Australian science fiction
- Australian newspaper fiction
- Australian fiction
- newspaper fiction
- creative writing
- speculative fiction
- fiction
- story
- Language
- English
- Format
- Infinite Anthologies Identifier
- IA001
- Copyright
- CC By 4.0 (original text)
- Australian Copyright Act 1968 (Edition)
- Edition Creator
- Neil Hogan
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