dcterms:title
	The World's Last Wonder (1901)
dcterms:creator
	Neil Hogan
dcterms:description
	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.
dcterms:format
	Pdf
dcterms:identifier
	IA001
dcterms:language
	English
dcterms:rights
	CC By 4.0 (original text)
	Australian Copyright Act 1968 (Edition)
dcterms:accessRights
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nptype:wordcount
	19,400
nptype:attributedAuthor
	Unattributed (Later attributed to John Arthur Andrews)
nptype:inscribedNationality
	Australian
After determining that it must have been written by John Arthur Andrews
nptype:inscribedAuthorGender
	Male (AustLit) https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A14050
nptype:informationSource
	https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/andrews-john-arthur-5028 John Arthur Andrews Biography at ADB
	https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A14050 John Arthur Andrews Biography at AustLit
nptype:additionalInformation
	"'For the Tocsin"
nptype:length
	Novella
nptype:newspaperNameLocationYears
	The Tocsin, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1897-1906
nptype:inventions
	Radiomotor
Spacecar
Earthquake Detector (though may operate as a radar)

nptype:relatedParatext
	Advertisement for a guidebook to patenting inventions.
nptype:singleorSerialised
	Serialised
nptype:dateRange
	1901-02-14-1901-05-16
nptype:installments
	14
nptype:provincialMetro
	Metropolitan
nptype:locationTownCity
	Melbourne
nptype:locationStateTerritory
	Victoria
nptype:linkstoTrove
	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.
nptype:sciencefictionsubgenres
	Advanced Race
	Colonial
	Exploration
	Alien First Contact
	Invention Opera
	Planetary
	Space Fiction
	Space Opera
	Xeno
nptype:linksTBC
	https://readallaboutit.com.au/#/title/65514 The World's Last Wonder Chapters at To Be Continued: The Australian Newspaper Fiction Database.
nptype:completeorSupplemented
	Complete
nptype:similarScienceFiction
	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)
nptype:keyClouds
	gravity scientist interplanetary
2 found, one discarded as not science fiction.
nptype:howIdentified
	Keycloud
nptype:firstRepublished
	YES
nptype:generalSubjects
	science fiction
	vintage science fiction
	Australian science fiction
	Australian newspaper fiction
	Australian fiction
	newspaper fiction
	creative writing
	speculative fiction
	fiction
	story

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