Nunsowe Green (or Greene) was the pseudonym for an unidenitified 19th-century British novelist.[1] He may have been a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.[2] He is known for authoring the 1882 science fiction novel A Thousand Years Hence.[3] Green is mentioned alongside Jules Verne by a character in the novel The Saliva Tree (1966) by Brian Aldiss, which also refers to H. G. Wells.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Kincaid, Paul. "A Timeline of British Science Fiction 1800–1899". Paul Kincaid, Author, Critic. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  2. ↑ "General Record of British and Foreign Literature" (PDF). The Publishers' Circle. XLV (1087). 30 December 1882.
  3. ↑ Post, Jonathan V. "AI in Space". Computer Futures - Space Publications. Retrieved 1 June 2018. Vulcan supposedly orbited the sun entirely within the orbit of Mercury. It was fictionally visited in ["Nunsowe Green", A Thousand Years Hence, 1882].
  4. ↑ Aldiss, Brian (1966). The Saliva Tree. London: Faber & Faber. p. 8.
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