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“THE DYNAMITER is a hugely inventive & brilliant book, at once a political thriller, a blackly comic satire, & a female adventure”

Robert Louis Stevenson & Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne married #OTD, 19 May, 1880. In this article, Prof Penny Fielding explores the dangerous #collaboration between RLS & his wife: granting female agency on the page & in life

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #WomenWriters #humour

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https://dangerouswomenproject.org/2017/01/06/a-dangerous-collaboration/

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“[Milne’s] cryogenics story, ‘Ten Thousand Years in Ice’, in which a survivor from an ancient advanced civilisation is revived in the present, unintentionally became one of science fiction’s great literary hoaxes”

Robert Duncan Milne (1844–1899) was born #OTD, 7 June, in Cupar, Fife. He emigrated to the USA & became America’s first full-time writer of #sciencefiction

#Scottish #literature #scifi #Victorian #19thcentury

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https://theconversation.com/remembering-the-lost-father-of-american-science-fiction-and-his-scottish-roots-78968