HALE, Edward Everett

HALE, Edward Everett
(1822-1909)
   Prolific US writer, contributing editor to The Atlantic Monthly, Unitarian preacher and abolitionist; he is best known today for the title story (1863) of The Man without a Country and Other Tales (coll 1868). Sybaris and Other Homes (coll 1869), describing a UTOPIAN colony ofSybarites uncovered on an ISLAND off the coast of Italy, is of sf interest. A second utopian fiction, Ten Times One is Ten: The Possible Reformation (1871), as by Frederick Ingham, is constructed as a fantasy ofsocially beneficial haunting; it first appeared (1870) in EEH's own journal Old and New, which he founded to espouse the ideals embodied in the tale. Hands Off (1881 Harper's New Monthly Magazine; 1895 chap) interestingly places two time-travelling spirits in Biblical Egypt, where as an experiment they construct an ALTERNATE WORLD in which the patriarch Joseph excapes captivity, with disastrous results. Of primary interest tosf readers are "The Brick Moon" (1869) and its short sequel, "Life in the Brick Moon" (1870)-both revised into one story in His Level Best and OtherStories (coll 1872), later reprinted in The Brick Moon and Other Stories (coll 1899), and published independently as The Brick Moon (1971 chap) - which comprise probably the first attempt to describe an artificial Earth satellite, along with its accidental launching into orbit and the attempts of those stranded upon it to survive.
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   Other works: Back to Back: A Story of Today (1878; exp vt How They Lived in Hampton: A Study of Practical Christianity Applied in the Manufacture of Woollens 1888), a utopian speculation in story form.
   About the author: "The Real Earth Satellite Story" in Explorers of the Infinite (1963) by Sam MOSKOWITZ.

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