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The Diamond Lens and Other Stories
An absorbing and haunting collection of early science fiction tales by an Irish-American author Fitz-James O'Brien capitalized on the success of his predecessors Edgar Allan Poe and Mary Shelley in writing disturbing stories with demented protagonists, and this collection of three tales shows his mastery of the macabre. "The Diamond Lens" tells of a lone scientist's discovery of a microcosmic world within a drop of water, and his growing obsession with the beautiful Animula, a fair maiden within this world which he can see but never enter. His uncompromising pursuit of knowledge at any cost foreshadows the mad scientist familiar to readers in a multitude of works. In "What Was It?" an invisi...
7 best short stories by Fitz James O'Brien
Fitz-James O'Brien was an Irish-born American author whose psychologically penetrating tales of pseudoscience and the uncanny made him one of the forerunners of modern science fiction. The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories by this remarkable author for your enjoyment: - The Diamond Lens. - The Lost Room. - What Was it? A Mystery. - My Wife's Tempter. - The Golden Ingot. - The Child Who Loved a Grave. - Thw Wondersmith.
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The Poems and Stories of Fitz-James O'brien
Excerpt from The Poems and Stories of Fitz-James O'brien: Collected and Edited, With a Sketch of the Author Health, Bird Gossip, and A Paper of All Sorts, and seven miscellaneous poems, all published in Harper; his Fragments from an Unpublished Magazine, which appeared in the Democratic Review, in September, October, and December, 1852; his series of sketches, called The Man about Town, begun in Harper's Weekly, and con tinued in Frank H. Bellew's Picayune; his dramatic re views, contributed to the Saturday Press in 1858 - 59; a number of papers in the old series of Putnam many mis cellaneous articles in the Home Journal, the Lantern, Van ity Fair, and other papers; more than twenty stories;...
The Wondersmith
The Wondersmith is a spooky Christmas story by Fitz-James O'Brien. O'Brien was an Irish author often considered one of the forerunners of the sci-fi genre. Excerpt: "Zonela was surely not of gypsy blood. That rich auburn hair, that looked almost black in the lamp-light, that pale, transparent skin, tinged with an under-glow of warm rich blood, the hazel eyes, large and soft as those of a fawn, were never begotten of a Zingaro. Zonela was seemingly about sixteen; her figure, although somewhat thin and angular, was full of the unconscious grace of youth."
POEMS & STORIES OF FITZ-JAMES
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