True, John Preston

Entry updated 31 July 2023. Tagged: Author.

(1859-1933) US author, mostly of historical novels; the eponymous meteor fragment, in The Iron Star and What It Saw On Its Journey through the Ages: From Myth to History (1899), which is written for older children, inspires or is in the vicinity of significant moments in the gradual Evolution of Homo sapiens, a voyage initially depicted in Prehistoric SF terms, later more mundanely. [JC]

John Preston True

born Bethel, Maine: 13 February 1859

died 1933

works

• The Iron Star and What It Saw On Its Journey through the Ages: From Myth to History (Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown, 1899) [hb/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

previous versions of this entry

• Internet Archive