Steampunk Prime_ A Vintage Steampunk Reader - Mike Ashley [139]
SOURCES
“Mr. Broadbent’s Information” by Henry A. Hering, first published in Pearson’s Magazine, March 1909.
“The Automaton” by Reginald Bacchus and C. Ranger Gull, first published in The Ludgate, January 1900.
“The Abduction of Alexandra Seine” by Fred C. Smale, first published in The Harmsworth Magazine, November 1900.
“The Gibraltar Tunnel” by Jean Jaubert, first published as “Le Tunnel de Gibraltar” in Je Sais Tout, 15 March 1914. This translation by Ethel Christian first published in the American edition of The Strand Magazine, September 1914.
“From Pole to Pole” by George Griffith, first published in The Windsor Magazine, October 1904.
“In the Deep of Time” by George Parsons Lathrop, first published in The English Illustrated Magazine, March and April 1897.
“The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings: The Star-Shaped Marks” by L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace, first published in The Strand Magazine, June 1898.
“The Plague of Lights” by Owen Oliver, first published in The London Magazine, October 1904.
“What the Rats Brought” by Ernest Favenc, first published in Phil May’s Illustrated Winter Annual, 1903-4.
“The Great Catastrophe” by George Davey, first published in The English Illustrated Magazine, February 1910.
“Within an Ace of the End of the World” by Robert Barr, first published in McClure’s Magazine, April 1900 and in The Windsor Magazine, December 1900.
“An Interplanetary Rupture” by Frank L. Packard, first published in The Monthly Story Blue Book Magazine, December 1906.
“The Last Days of Earth” by George C. Wallis, first published in The Harmsworth Magazine, July 1901.
“The Plunge” by George Allan England, first published in Snappy Stories, first April number, 1916.
Contributors
MIKE ASHLEY is the author and editor of over 90 books in the fields of science fiction, crime fiction and the supernatural. His books range from Algernon Blackwood: An Extraordinary Life to The Time Machines, the first in a series about the science-fiction magazines. He won an Edgar Award for The Mammoth Encyclopaedia of Crime Fiction, a Stoker Award for The Supernatural Index and received the Pilgrim Award for lifetime contribution to science fiction research.
PAUL DI FILIPPO has over twenty-five published books to his credit. He lives in Providence, RI, USA, with his mate of three decades, Deborah Newton, his chocolate-colored cocker spaniel Brownie, and a calico cat named Penny Century.
LUIS ORTIZ lives and works in New York City as a creative director and advertising artist. He is the editor, along with Earl Kemp, of Cult Magazines: From A to Z, and author of Emshwiller: Infinity X Two, which was nominated for both the Hugo and Locus awards.
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