Mesaerion: The Best Science Fiction Stories 1800-1849

Edgar Allan Poe · Nathaniel Hawthorne · Lydia Child · Thomas Charles Morgan · Percival Leigh · William Mudford · Frederick Marryat

Sep 2013 · Bottletree Books LLC

About this ebook

Andrew Barger, award-winning author and engineer, has extensively researched forgotten journals and magazines of the early 19th century to locate groundbreaking science fiction short stories in the English language. In doing so, he found what is possibly the first science fiction story by a female (and it is not from Mary Shelley). Andrew located the first steampunk short story, which has not been republished since 1844. There is the first voyage to the moon in a balloon, republished for the first time since 1820 that further tells of a darkness machine and a lunarian named Zuloc.

Other sci-stories include the first robotic insect and an electricity gun. Once again, Andrew has searched old texts to find the very best science fiction stories from the period when the genre automated to life, some of the stories are published for the first time in nearly 200 years. Read these fantastic sci-fi short stories today!

OUR OWN COUNTRY

So mechanical has the age become, that men seriously talk of flying machines, to go by steam,--not your air-balloons, but real Daedalian wings, made of wood and joints, nailed to your shoulder,--not wings of feathers and wax like the wings of Icarus, who fell into the Cretan sea, but real, solid, substantial, rock-maple wings with wrought-iron hinges, and huge concavities, to propel us through the air.

Knickerbocker Magazine, May 1835

About the author

Andrew Barger's latest novel is The Divine Dantes trilogy. The first book in the series follows the characters of Dante’s “The Inferno” in a messed-up modern world. Andrew is also the award winning author of Coffee with Poe: A Novel of Edgar Allan Poe’s Life. Mailboxes – Mansions – Memphistopheles is his first short story collection. He is also the editor of a number of other books, including The Best Vampire Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Vampire Anthology and Edgar Allan Poe Annotated and Illustrated Entire Stories and Poems, and is recognized for his scholarly and creative writing. He wants to start a band, if only he could settle on a name for it.