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Athey, Henry

(?   -?   ) US author of an sf novel, With Gyves of Gold: A Novel (1898) with A Herbert Bowers, both writers remaining untraced, though both may have been based in Missouri. A young man, experimented upon by a modestly Mad Scientist, develops the paranormal ability to travel by astral means to another planet, where he observes the operation of a Utopia in which small firms are protected by multi-national corporations (or trusts). The trip kills him. [JC]

Henry Athey

born

works

• With Gyves of Gold: A Novel (New York: G W Dillingham Company, 1898) with A Herbert Bowers [hb/uncredited]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
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