Harris, W S
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1865-1956) US minister and author, whose Sermons by the Devil (coll 1904) contain elements of Christian fantasy, and whose Life in a Thousand Worlds (1905) is a mildly fictionalized Fantastic Voyage through our solar system and beyond; the protagonist examines a large number of societies (some Utopian, some Dystopian) on a variety of planets (see Archipelago), the civilization of Mars being excoriated in particular for having established a cruel class system. The journey then extends into interstellar space, including Heaven, which comprises a net of stars. [JC]
Reverend William Schuler Harris
born New Columbia, Pennsylvania: 3 October 1865
died Allentown, Pennsylvania: 4 April 1956
works
- Mr World and Miss Church-Member; Or, the Secret Service of Satan: An Allegory (Cleona, Pennsylvania: G Holzapfel, 1900) [hb/]
- Modern Fables and Parables (Napierville, Illinois: J L Nichols and Co, 1903) [coll: hb/]
- Sermons by the Devil (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: The Minter Company, 1904) [coll: pb/]
- Life in a Thousand Worlds (Boston, Massachusetts: James H Earle and Co, 1905) [various distributors for this mail-order publication have been listed as the publisher: hb/]
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