Robert Duncan Milne’s #sciencefiction pioneered themes such as climate catastrophe, cryogenics, biological engineering, personality transfer, scientific terrorism, drone warfare, & more. This 2021 talk by Dundee University’s Centre for Scottish Culture introduces Milne’s life & work
Originally published in THE ARGONAUT in 1883, Milne’s “A New Palingenesis” is, like #Frankenstein, a secular version of the resurrection myth. Adapted in 2022 in comic-book form, it’s available to download for free from Dundee University
#Scottish #literature #scifi #Victorian #19thcentury #comics
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https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/publications/a-new-palingenesis
Robert Duncan Milne’s short story “Ten Thousand Years in Ice” – published in ARGONAUT STORIES (San Francisco: Payot, Upham & Co., 1906) – is online via @gutenberg_org
#Scottish #literature #scifi #sciencefiction #19thcentury #Victorian
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