Un genio dotato di un cervello meccanico, destinato a dominare il mondo.Gli Stati Uniti ucronici di un 1937 che non è mai stato, invasi dalla Cina.Un teletrasporto finito male.Un orologio capace di portare indietro nel tempo.Una macchina per analizzare l’anima degli uomini.Uno scienziato invisibile.Una macchina per raggiungere velocità infinite.Queste sono le sette idee principali dietro i sette racconti di Edward Page Mitchell qui proposti...

Edward Page Mitchell was born in Bath, Maine on 24th March 1852 into a wealthy family. When he was eight the family moved to a house on New York’s famed Fifth Avenue.In 1863 he witnessed the Draft Riots and in the aftermath Mitchell's father moved the family to Tar River, North Carolina. It was there, at the age of fourteen, that his letters were first published in the local newspaper The Bath Times.In 1872, at age twenty, whilst on a train journey to Bath, Maine, a hot cin...

On a dark New York street, a man collides with a stranger who leaves almost no trace behind him. Minutes later that stranger vanishes into thin air, and the mystery refuses to leave the narrator’s mind.The answer arrives in the most astonishing way imaginable. Guided by unseen hands into a hidden room, the narrator meets a man who should not exist—a living scientist whose body has been stripped of every pigment until nothing remains to catch the light. He can speak, move, breathe, ...

Ich fühlte, wie ich von unsichtbaren Händen aus meinem Bett gehoben und schnell die immer enger werdende Allee der Zeit hinuntergetragen wurde. Jeden Augenblick passierte ich ein Jahrhundert und begegnete neuen Reichen, neuen Völkern, seltsamen Ideen und unbekannten Glaubensrichtungen. So fand ich mich schließlich am Ende der Allee, am Ende der Zeit, unter einem blutroten Himmel wieder, der schrecklicher war als das tiefste Schwarz.

Edward Page Mitchell was born in Bath, Maine on 24th March 1852 into a wealthy family. When he was eight the family moved to a house on New York’s famed Fifth Avenue.In 1863 he witnessed the Draft Riots and in the aftermath Mitchell's father moved the family to Tar River, North Carolina. It was there, at the age of fourteen, that his letters were first published in the local newspaper The Bath Times.In 1872, at age twenty, whilst on a train journey to Bath, Maine, a hot cin...

Bilim kurgu dünyasında ilklerin yazarı olarak bilinen Edward Page Mitchell, 150 yıla yakın zaman geçmesine rağmen öyküleriyle ilgileri üzerine çekmeye devam ediyor.yüzyılın ikinci yarısından başlayarak 1920’lere kadar uzun bir süre dergilerde yayınladığı ilginç hikayeleriyle bilim kurgunun bilinirliğini arttıran Mitchell, kendinden sonrakileri de etkileyerek bilim kurgu edebiyatına kimliğini veren isimlerden biri oldu.H. G. Wells gibi bir bilim kurgu...

The Man Without a Body is a pioneering science-fiction tale first published in The New York Sun in 1877. The story follows a brilliant but impatient scientist who invents a machine capable of transmitting matter through space — but when he tests it on himself, only his head makes the journey. What begins as a bold experiment quickly becomes a darkly humorous and unsettling lesson in the limits of human control over technology. Long before teleportation was a commo...

Later described as "the lost giant of American science fiction," Edward Page Mitchell wrote many science fiction and fantasy short stories in the 1870's to 1890's, nearly all of which were published anonymously in the The Sun daily newspaper of New York. Mitchell was editor-in-chief of The Sun and was a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board for many years.Mitchell introduced many technological and social predictions which were daring for the time, prior to similar predictions by famou...

Edward Page Mitchell was born in Bath, Maine on 24th March 1852 into a wealthy family. When he was eight the family moved to a house on New York’s famed Fifth Avenue.In 1863 he witnessed the Draft Riots and in the aftermath Mitchell's father moved the family to Tar River, North Carolina. It was there, at the age of fourteen, that his letters were first published in the local newspaper The Bath Times.In 1872, at age twenty, whilst on a train journey to Bath, Maine, a hot cin...

Edward Page Mitchell was born in Bath, Maine on 24th March 1852 into a wealthy family. When he was eight the family moved to a house on New York’s famed Fifth Avenue.In 1863 he witnessed the Draft Riots and in the aftermath Mitchell's father moved the family to Tar River, North Carolina. It was there, at the age of fourteen, that his letters were first published in the local newspaper The Bath Times.In 1872, at age twenty, whilst on a train journey to Bath, Maine, a hot cin...

Bilimkurgu dünyasında ilklerin yazarı olarak bilinen Edward Page Mitchell, 150 yıla yakın zaman geçmesine rağmen öyküleriyle ilgileri üzerine çekmeye devam ediyor.yüzyılın ikinci yarısından başlayarak 1920’lere kadar uzun bir süre dergilerde yayınladığı ilginç hikayeleriyle bilim kurgunun bilinirliğini arttıran Mitchell, kendinden sonrakileri de etkileyerek bilimkurgu edebiyatına kimliğini veren isimlerden biri oldu.H. G. Wells gibi bir bilimkurgu üs...

Durch eine halb geöffnete Schranktür konnte ich eine menschenähnliche Gestalt sehen, die mit einem Laken zugedeckt war. Rivarol fing meinen Blick auf. 'Das', sagte er, 'wird mein Meisterwerk sein. Es ist ein Mikrokosmos, ein Androide, der bisher nur teilweise fertiggestellt ist. Und warum auch nicht? Albertus Magnus hat ein perfektes Bild geschaffen, um über Metaphysik zu sprechen und die Schulen zu widerlegen. Das tat auch Sylvester II. und Robertus Greathead. Roger Bacon schuf einen eher...