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Title of Story
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The Antarcticans. Being the Further and Still More Surprising Adventures of Captain Bjornvik in the Regions Around the South Pole.
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Story Summary
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Various inventions get Bjornvik to the South Pole area where he encounters a forest of lepidodendrons, encountering predeluvian animals, narrated by the actual genius who created many of the inventions and wants to impart the knowledge of how they all work to everyone on board. The ship is able to locate this area in the south due to a shift in the Earth's axis. Some satire is present and may remind one of the storytelling of Baron Munchausen (1785).
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Science Fiction Subgenres
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invention opera
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exploration
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lost race
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utopia
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Inventions
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A list is coming soon
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How this Story was Identified
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Keyclouds searching an exported copy of the years 1901-1939 from the To Be Continued Australian Newspaper Fiction Database.
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KeyClouds
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professor experiment electricity science mechanism
11 were determined to be science fiction of the 30 found
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Date Details Added to IA
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March 2023
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Additional Information
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"As related by himself."
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Attributed Author
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A. J. Boyd [William Alexander Jenyns Boyd]
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Author Gender
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Male
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Nationality
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Australian
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Biographical and Other Sources
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Austlit notes that Boyd worked at The Queenslander as its agricultural editor between 1876 and 1877. While having this brief history might have encouraged the editor in 1922 to consider his story, it is more likely the 40 or so other works to his name got their attention.
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A. J. Boyd Biography at AustLit
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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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1922-05-06
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Year For Sorting
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1921
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Date Range
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1921-12-24-1922-05-06
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Number of Installments
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32 chapters printed in lots of one or two.
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Complete or Supplemented
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Complete
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Estimated Word Count
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57,000
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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/83057
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Links to Trove
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Chapter I
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/22617649
Chapter II & III
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/22617805
Chapter IV
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/27426653
Chapter V & VI
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/27427033
Chapter VII
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/27427215
Chapter VIII
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/27427652
<To be continued>
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Chapter XXXII
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/27430869
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Newspaper Publisher Citation
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The Queenslander
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Newspaper Name Location Years
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The Queenslander, Brisbane, Qld, 1866-1939
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Location Town City
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Brisbane
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Location State Territory
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Queensland
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Provincial or Metro
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Metropolitan
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General Subjects
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Children's
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science fiction
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newspaper fiction
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australian newspaper fiction
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fiction
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Language
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English
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Format
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Pdf
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Infinite Anthologies Identifier
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IA055
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Copyright
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CC By 4.0
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Edition Publisher
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InfiniteAnthologies.com
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