The Mummy!: A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century - Softcover

Loudon, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 154529755X ISBN 13: 9781545297551

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 154529755X
• ISBN 13: 9781545297551
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 388