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Andrew Barger, award-winning author and engineer, has extensively researched forgotten journals and magazines of the early 19th century to locate groundbreaking science fiction short stories in the English language. In doing so, he found what is possibly the first science fiction story by a female (and it is not from Mary Shelley). Andrew located the first steampunk short story, which has not been republished since 1844. There is the first voyage to the moon in a balloon, republished for the first time since 1820 that further tells of a darkness machine and a lunarian named Zuloc. Other classic sci-fi stories include the first robotic insect and an electricity gun.

Popular science fiction authors that started the genre in the United States are also present like Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Once again, Andrew has searched old texts to find the very best science fiction stories from the period when the genre automated to life, some of the stories are published for the first time in nearly 200 years. Read these fantastic stories today!

• The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar - Edgar Allan Poe
• The Aerial Burglar - Percival Leigh
• A Visit to the Lunar Sphere - Captain Frederick Marryat
• Glimpses of Other Worlds - Thomas Charles Morgan
• Hilda Silfverling, A Fantasy - Lydia Maria Child
• Rappaccini's Daughter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Rival Mechanicians - Lydia Maria Child
• A Descent Into the Maelstrom - Edgar Allan Poe
• The Artist of the Beautiful - Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Iron Shroud - William Mudford

OUR OWN COUNTRY

So mechanical has the age become, that men seriously talk of flying machines, to go by steam,--not your air-balloons, but real Daedalian wings, made of wood and joints, nailed to your shoulder,--not wings of feathers and wax like the wings of Icarus, who fell into the Cretan sea, but real, solid, substantial, rock-maple wings with wrought-iron hinges, and huge concavities, to propel us through the air. Knickerbocker Magazine, May 1835

Why the Captain America Movie Harkens Back to a Science Fiction Story from 1845

The new movie Captain America: The Winter Solider is out, but it is the first installment from 2011, Captain America: First Avenger that shows him waking up after being frozen in Arctic ice for 70 years. How does this possibly relate to a short story from 1845?

The first cryptopreservation sci-fi story is "Hilda Silfverling"by Lydia Maria Child, republished for the first time in over 100 years in Mesaerion: The Best Science Fiction Stories 1800-1849. In the groundbreaking tale, a chemist has found a way to "suspend animation in living creatures and restore it at any time" after they have been frozen.

Sometimes what's new in science fiction movies is old again!

List of Stories in Mesaerion: The Best Science Fiction Stories 1800-1849

So what are these classic and early short science fiction stories uncovered from old magazines and journals of the first half of the 19th century? Check out this list of forgotten classics. Yes, with some work you can probably find most of them online, is that really worth your time? You will also not get the author photos, story backgrounds and annotations (Book only) of these great science fiction stories found in Mesaerion: The Best Science Fiction Stories 1800-1849.

• The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar – Edgar Allan Poe
• The Aerial Burglar – Percival Leigh
• A Visit to the Lunar Sphere – Captain Frederick Marryat
• Glimpses of Other Worlds – Thomas Charles Morgan
• Hilda Silfverling, A Fantasy – Lydia Maria Child
• Rappaccini’s Daughter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Rival Mechanicians – Lydia Maria Child
• A Descent Into the Maelstrom – Edgar Allan Poe
• The Artist of the Beautiful – Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Iron Shroud – William Mudford

Asteroid with Comet-Like Tales and the First Comet Science Fiction Short Story in the English Language

The Hubbel telescope has recently spotted a strange asteroid with six comet-like tales. Whenever I hear interesting scientific news like this I always want to know if (and when) science fiction authors first wrote about such an event.

Turns out in 1835, Sir Thomas Charles Morgan (1783-1843)--husband of the popular novelist Lady Morgan--came pretty close. He wrote the first science fiction short story where the protagonist rides on a comet that he controls by a "filial or two" of concentrated gravity. The tale is called "Glimpses of Other Worlds" and you can find it my recently published anthology - Mesaerion: The Best Science Fiction Stories 1800-1849.

Cover Reveal for "Mesaerion: The Best Science Fiction Stories 1800-1849"

Mesaerion: The Best Science Fiction Stories 1800-1849 Edited by Andrew Barger

It's a holiday weekend here in America and what better time to reveal the cover for my latest book: Mesaerion: The Best Science Fiction Stories 1800-1849? Soon I will announce what great sci-fi stories I have uncovered, some of which have not been republished in over 150 years. Meantime, the ebook is out now if you simply cannot wait. You know who you are!

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