{"product_id":"2940148568155","title":"Sci-Fi and Fantasy Stories From the Sun","description":"Later described as \"the lost giant of American science fiction,\" Edward Page Mitchell wrote many science fiction and fantasy short stories in the 1870's to 1890's, nearly all of which were published anonymously in the The Sun daily newspaper of New York. Mitchell was editor-in-chief of The Sun and was a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board for many years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMitchell introduced many technological and social predictions which were daring for the time, prior to similar predictions by famous authors, such as travel by pneumatic tube, electrical heating, newspapers printed in the home by electrical transmission, food-pellet concentrates, international broadcasts, suspended animation of a living human being through freezing (cryogenics), a man rendered invisible by scientific means, a time-travel machine, faster-than-light travel, a thinking computer, a cyborg, matter transmission or teleportation, voting by American women, and interracial marriage. His fantasy stories dabble with the occult and bizarre, involving ghosts, the Devil, masochism, inanimate objects coming to life, and more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE TACHYPOMP (April 1894),\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE SOUL SPECTROSCOPE (19 December 1875),\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE FACTS IN THE RATCLIFF CASE (07 March 1879),\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE STORY OF THE DELUGE (29 April 1875),\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE PROFESSOR'S EXPERIMENT (22 February 1880),\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE INSIDE OF THE EARTH (27 February 1876),\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE BALLOON TREE (25 February 1883),\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOLD SQUIDS AND LITTLE SPELLER (19 July 1885),\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE MAN WITHOUT A BODY (25 March 1877),\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE ABLEST MAN IN THE WORLD (04 May 1879),\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE SENATOR'S DAUGHTER (27 July 1879),\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE CRYSTAL MAN (30 January 1881),\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE CLOCK THAT WENT BACKWARD (18 September 1881),\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Tower Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079312261360,"sku":"2940148568155","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148568155_p0.jpg?v=1763705168","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148568155","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}