Aikin, Charles
Entry updated 21 April 2025. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) US author of a Hollow Earth novel, Forty Years With the Damned; or, Life Inside the Earth (1895), told within a skimpy frame as an extended Club Story, itself housing tales within tales. The central narrator and his wife, who had escaped Slavery in 1840, have spent decades in a kind of multi-cultural, multi-ethnic Utopia, structured Equipoisally in the form of Dante Alighieri's Commedia. Wars are fought using Airships. A trip in a Spaceship to Mars intervenes. In the end, various ideal societies, inspired by socialist convictions, flourish under America, with Blacks serving whites voluntarily (see Race in SF). [JC]
Charles Aikin
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- Forty Years With the Damned; or, Life Inside the Earth (Evanston, Illinois: Regan Printing House, 1895) [hb/nonpictorial]
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