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| Author | W. S. Lach-Szyrma |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Wyman and Sons, Jurassic London |
Publication date | 1883 |
| Publication place | England |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 220 |
| OCLC | 7261871 |
Aleriel, or A Voyage to Other Worlds is an 1883science fiction novel byWladislaw Somerville Lach-Szyrma, a Polish-Englishcurate, author, and historian.
The book is an expanded version of Lach-Szyrma's earlier workA Voice from Another World, published in 1874. A sequel series, "Letters from the Planets", was published in nine parts between 1887 and 1893 inCassell's Family Magazine.[1][2]
Published in 1883,Aleriel is aVictorian novel, which was previously thought to be the first published work to apply the wordMartian as a noun (it is now known that the word had been so used as early as 1869[3][4]): After the protagonist, Aleriel, lands onMars, he buries his spacecraft in snow, "so that it might not be disturbed by any Martian who might come across it".[5] The novel portraysVenus and Mars asutopias,Jupiter andSaturn as primitive, and theMoon as desolate.[6]
A new edition was published in 2015. It includes the same text and a new introduction by Richard Dunn (Royal Museums Greenwich) andMarek Kukula (Royal Observatory Greenwich).[7]
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