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John Ames Mitchell

Lifespan
1845 – 1918
Nationality
American
Active
1886 – 1889
Works held
4

John Ames Mitchell (1845–1918) founded the original humour magazine Life, but for science fiction he is remembered for The Last American (1889), a satirical future-history in which Persian explorers discover the ruins of a vanished United States, and the fantasy Amos Judd. A witty, illustrated contribution to early American speculative fiction.

The works

  1. 1889
    Cover of La lasta Usonano La lasta Usonano Cover of The Last American The Last American Cover of The Last American The Last American
  2. 1886
    Cover of The Romance of the Moon The Romance of the Moon

Wrote across

1880s

Recurring themes

Post-ApocalypticSocial SFSpace OperaFantasy

Kindred authors shared themes

Daniel F. GalouyeEdmond HamiltonEvelyn E. SmithFritz LeiberH. G. WellsPhilip K. DickPoul AndersonRandall Garrett

Contemporaries writing in the same era

Mark TwainJules VerneEdward BellamyAndrew LangLewis CarrollEdwin Abbott AbbottFrank R. StocktonGeorges Le FaureH. de GraffignyWilliam Morris

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