Edward Page Mitchell
Posté : sam. août 18, 2012 9:11 am
Je découvre l'existence d'un individu intéressant, Edward Page Mitchell, du fait de ce petit article. J'imagine que d'aucuns d'entre vous le connaissaient déjà, mais je suis surtout frappé par la liste de ses fantaisies scientifiques dans wikipedia :
wikipedia a écrit :Mitchell wrote fiction about a man rendered invisible by scientific means ("The Crystal Man", published in 1881) before H.G. Wells's The Invisible Man, wrote about a time-travel machine ("The Clock that Went Backward") before Wells's The Time Machine, wrote about faster-than-light travel ("The Tachypomp"; now perhaps his best-known work) in 1874, a thinking computer and a cyborg in 1879 ("The Ablest Man in the World"), and also wrote the earliest known stories about matter transmission or teleportation ("The Man without a Body", 1877) and a superior mutant ("Old Squids and Little Speller"). "Exchanging Their Souls" (1877) is one of the earliest fictional accounts of mind transfer.