One of the Earliest Science Fiction Books Was Written in the 1600s by a Duchess

A fascinating look at an early sf author:

Meet Lady Margaret Cavendish.

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  1. Wow! I don’t think I’ve heard of this, before! (It certainly sounds hard to forget! – though… maybe, ‘never say never’…).

    Anyway, it is delightful to see that it is scanned in the Internet Archive – though listed under the title of its companion volume, Observations upon Experimental Philosophy (!):

    https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_e_dmAAAAcAAJ/page/n5

    And to see that there is even a free audiobook of it (lasting a bit over four hours) at LibriVox.org – with a link to an online transcription.

    I have not paused to make its direct acquaintance before giving thanks to you and Natalie Zarelli for bringing to our – and, so, my – attention, so I don’t yet know if it has any possible connection with, say, John Uri Lloyd’s Etidorpha, or Tolkien’s Polar mythology… But I wonder if any of the Inklings knew it?

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