This collection showcases the speculative writing of Scottish-born and California-based writer Robert Duncan Milne (1844-99) whose works mark him as one of the forgotten pioneers of early science fiction. Hailed as the first full-time science fiction writer in America, this critical edition draws together the most expansive collection of his writing ever published and places his life, works and themes into their historical, literary and scientific contexts. With his writing touching on nea...

Robert Duncan Milne was born on 7th June 1844 in Cupar in Fife, Scotland.Little is known of the life of this extraordinary author who created some of the most appealing science fiction stories ever written.As an adult he lived in San Francisco and wrote short stories for local newspapers and periodicals of the time and principally for The Argonaut, the political and literary newspaper heavyweight of the area.Robert Duncan Milne died in San Francisco, California on 1...

Robert Duncan Milne was born on 7th June 1844 in Cupar in Fife, Scotland.Little is known of the life of this extraordinary author who created some of the most appealing science fiction stories ever written.As an adult he lived in San Francisco and wrote short stories for local newspapers and periodicals of the time and principally for The Argonaut, the political and literary newspaper heavyweight of the area.Robert Duncan Milne died in San Francisco, California on 1...

Robert Duncan Milne was born on 7th June 1844 in Cupar in Fife, Scotland.Little is known of the life of this extraordinary author who created some of the most appealing science fiction stories ever written.As an adult he lived in San Francisco and wrote short stories for local newspapers and periodicals of the time and principally for The Argonaut, the political and literary newspaper heavyweight of the area.Robert Duncan Milne died in San Francisco, California on 1...

Robert Duncan Milne was born on 7th June 1844 in Cupar in Fife, Scotland.Little is known of the life of this extraordinary author who created some of the most appealing science fiction stories ever written.As an adult he lived in San Francisco and wrote short stories for local newspapers and periodicals of the time and principally for The Argonaut, the political and literary newspaper heavyweight of the area.Robert Duncan Milne died in San Francisco, California on 1...

Robert Duncan Milne was born on 7th June 1844 in Cupar in Fife, Scotland.Little is known of the life of this extraordinary author who created some of the most appealing science fiction stories ever written.As an adult he lived in San Francisco and wrote short stories for local newspapers and periodicals of the time and principally for The Argonaut, the political and literary newspaper heavyweight of the area.Robert Duncan Milne died in San Francisco, California on 1...

Robert Duncan Milne was born on 7th June 1844 in Cupar in Fife, Scotland.Little is known of the life of this extraordinary author who created some of the most appealing science fiction stories ever written.As an adult he lived in San Francisco and wrote short stories for local newspapers and periodicals of the time and principally for The Argonaut, the political and literary newspaper heavyweight of the area.Robert Duncan Milne died in San Francisco, California on 1...

Robert Duncan Milne was born on 7th June 1844 in Cupar in Fife, Scotland.Little is known of the life of this extraordinary author who created some of the most appealing science fiction stories ever written.As an adult he lived in San Francisco and wrote short stories for local newspapers and periodicals of the time and principally for The Argonaut, the political and literary newspaper heavyweight of the area.Robert Duncan Milne died in San Francisco, California on 1...

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes. Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and ...

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore them...

‘The End of the World is Nigh’ has been seen, heard and quoted ad infinitum all of our lives. In the comfort zone of our own arrogance and the resources that we humans have at our disposal it seems we are both inviolable and invincible. All is safe. We are in control.But Nature has a way of sending earthquakes, eruptions, fires and flood, and much else besides, at the most inopportune times and, in these more modern days, with increasing frequency and extremes.In this volum...

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be publishe...