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Title of Story
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An Aerial Adventure, or The Secret of a Scientist
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Story Summary
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While this is written for the children's section, and written by Victor D. A. Courtney from the ages of 13 to 15, before he became a well-known journalist and newspaper owner, various letters to the editor of the children's section during that time point to Courtney being quite advanced in language and writing skills for his age. The story features an abduction into a new spaceship invention that will travel to a newly discovered planet. During the 5 year journey mature themes are discussed before they land on an alien planet with extraterrestrials. Biology and economy are discussed in detail yet it soon descends into a simple fight against the kingdom albeit with science-based weapons. Eventually losing one of their crew, the crazed inventor destroys the city in revenge and escapes with the narrator and others. While there are ups and downs, the fact that even chapters were divided up into installments and sometimes not continued for weeks at a time possibly meant a frustrating situation for readers.
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Science Fiction Subgenres
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Space Opera
Space Fiction
Invasion
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Inventions
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A lot. List coming soon.
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How this Story was Identified
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Using the previous To Be Continued Australian Newspaper Fiction Database export system I downloaded everything in decades of texts and searched them for genre specific keywords
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KeyClouds
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scientist invention earth world telescope mechanism planet instrument
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Date Details Added to IA
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February 2023
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Additional Information
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aged 13, 22 Adelaide-terrace, Perth
"From one of our nephews"
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Attributed Author
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Victor D. A. Courtney
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Author Gender
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Male
https://www.austlit.edu.au./austlit/page/A26159
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Nationality
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Australian
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Single or Serialised
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Serialised
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First Published Date of Last Installment
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1910-05-28
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Year For Sorting
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1910
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Date Range
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1909-02-27-1910-05-28
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Number of Installments
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48+
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Complete or Supplemented
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Incomplete. Missing 1909-10-30 installment. After much searching, with thanks to the members of the Perth Library, Local Council, and the National Library of Australia, which only hold the third edition of that newspaper, I believe the installment may have only been released in the first edition, or missed altogether.
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Estimated Word Count
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56,000
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Length
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Novel
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Links in To Be Continued
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https://readallaboutit.com.au/#/title/71566
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Newspaper Publisher Citation
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The Daily News
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Newspaper Name Location Years
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The Daily News Perth Western Australia 1882-1955
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Location Town City
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Perth
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Location State Territory
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Western Australia
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Provincial or Metro
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Metropolitan
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First Republished on InfiniteAnthologies.com
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Not public domain until 2040. Collected copy with edits available on request.
