Reverie, Reginald
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Pseudonym of US author Grenville Mellen (1799-1841), whose extremely early volume of short stories, Sad Tales and Glad Tales (coll 1828), has been claimed as a shaping influence upon Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe. Of sf interest in the collection is a Satire, "The Meeting of the Planets", in which the planets talk among themselves about Homo sapiens; and "The Tale of an Aeronaut", whose protagonist travels by Balloon to the Moon and other planets, listening as they make plans against their enemy, the Earth and its inhabitants. [JC]
Grenville Mellen
born Biddeford, Maine: 19 June 1799
died New York: 5 September 1841
works
- Sad Tales and Glad Tales (Boston, Massachusetts: S G Goodrich, 1828) [coll: binding unknown/]
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