| The Mummy! Contributor(s): Loudon, Jane (Author) |
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ISBN: 1985618060 ISBN-13: 9781985618060 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $20.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - General |
| Physical Information: 1.17" H x 6" W x 9" (1.69 lbs) 580 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Published anonymously in three volumes when the author was only seventeen years old, The Mummy is, as she describes it herself, a strange, wild novel that-to an audience nearer her future than when Loudon imagined it-is filled with striking similarities to our modern world, including a form of the internet. But it is also filled with brilliant flights of fancy: her court ladies wear hair ornaments of controlled flame; surgeons and lawyers may be steam-powered automatons; people holiday by moving their entire home on rails. The visionary technological setting contrasts with a morality seemingly gone awry as it falls to the reanimated mummy Cheops to try to find a role in this corrupted society. A lost curio of Victorian futurism waiting to be discovered, The Mummy is as bizarre and entertaining as it's premise promises-and more. |