A Visit to Venus - Couverture souple

Hobbs, George

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1914407229 ISBN 13 : 9781914407222

Editeur : Hobnob Press, 2021

Synopsis

This book is a result of the remarkable vision and creativity of the Swindon writer George Ewart Hobbs (1883-1946). Hobbs, whose life and works are also explored in A Swindon Wordsmith (published in 2019) and A Swindon Radical (2021), worked full-time as an engineer with the GWR, for more than half a century, but was still a prolific writer, across a dazzling range of (fiction and nonfiction) subjects. A Visit to Venus was originally serialised in the Swindon Advertiser, and although it is not his only work of science fiction, it is the longest and most ambitious, made all the more remarkable by the fact that it was written in 1927, when the genre was in its infancy. With its believable characters and the philosophical and theological questions it raises, A Visit to Venus sits alongside other quality (but much later) examples of the genre in its purest form, most notably Star Trek, boldly dealing with what science fiction is always about in the end: man's solitude. Because this is a story seeking not just what's out there, but rather what's inside us.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hobnob Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1914407229
• ISBN 13: 9781914407222
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 134
• Éditeur: Ponting Noel, Carter Graham
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible