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Templeton, Timothy

Pseudonym of US author Charles Adams (?   -?   ), whose sf Satire on antebellum America, The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth; Or, the Little Quibbles of Great Governments (1856), though allegorized as a series of letters to Uncle Sam, does feature a voyage in a Balloon at such a speed that the Sun is overtaken. [JC]

Charles Adams

born

works

• The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth; Or, the Little Quibbles of Great Governments (New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1856) [hb/]

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Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 19:28 pm on 23 April 2024.
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