Ferrar, William M
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1823-1906) Irish-born author, in Australia from around 1842, who also wrote as by Ferdinand Ferntree. No copies of his first identified title of sf interest, The Dream of Hubertus (circa 1870-1879), seem to have been examined. Given the carry-over of the eponym, this tale may have been an early draft of Ferrar ambitious Dystopia, Artabanzanus: The Demon of the Great Lake: An Allegorical Romance of Tasmania: Arranged from the Diary of the Late Oliver Ubertus (1896), a heavily allegorical narrative set mostly Underground beneath Tasmania, where a Lost World is inhabited by various societies, some exhibiting high Technology, but all suffused with hellishness. It is intimated that somewhere aboveground may be found a heavenly Utopia. [JC]
William Moore Ferrar
born Dublin, Ireland: 22 June 1823
died Ross, Tasmania: 14 August 1906
works
- The Dream of Hubertus (Hobart Town and Launceston, Tasmania: J Walch and Sons, circa 1870-1879) [binding unknown/]
- Artabanzanus: The Demon of the Great Lake: An Allegorical Romance of Tasmania: Arranged from the Diary of the Late Oliver Ubertus (London: Eliot Stock, 1896) [hb/]
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