Mr. Stranger's Sealed Packet

Mr. Stranger's Sealed Packet

1st Edition Cover
Author	Hugh MacColl
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Chatto & Windus
Publication date	1889
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)

Mr. Stranger's Sealed Packet is a short novel by Hugh MacColl. It was first published in English in 1889. ^[1] This novel is now out of print.

The novel deals with a journey to Mars in a flying machine and describes the history and customs of the Martians, depicting a scientifically advanced utopian society.

Further reading

• Bleiler, Everett Franklin (1990). "MacColl, Hugh". Science-fiction, the Early Years: A Full Description of More Than 3,000 Science-fiction Stories from Earliest Times to the Appearance of the Genre Magazines in 1930: with Author, Title, and Motif Indexes . With the assistance of Richard J. Bleiler. Kent State University Press. pp. 459–460. ISBN   978-0-87338-416-2.
• Crossley, Robert (2011). "Inventing a New Mars". Imagining Mars: A Literary History. Wesleyan University Press. pp. 51–55. ISBN   978-0-8195-7105-2.
• Olsen, Stein Haugom (December 1998). "Hugh MacColl—Victorian" (PDF). Nordic Journal of Philosophical Logic . 3 (1). Scandinavian University Press: 197–229. eISSN   0806-6213. ISSN   0806-6205.

References

1. Gregory, R. A. (July 1889). "A Journey to the Planet Mars". Nature. 40 (1030): 291–292. doi:10.1038/040291a0. ISSN   1476-4687.