Back to entry: fisher_mary_a | Show links blue

Fisher, Mary A

(1839-?   ) US author whose novel of interest, Among the Immortals, in the Land of Desire: A Glimpse of the Beyond (1916), is set in a Utopian Afterlife [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below] where relations between the sexes (see Feminism) seem clement; of specific sf interest in the tale is the use of telescopes – which, given the atemporal nature of this Afterlife might be thought of as Time Viewers – to witness the devastation of World War One. [JC]

Mary Ann Fisher

born 1839

works

• Among the Immortals, in the Land of Desire: A Glimpse of the Beyond (New York: The Shakespeare Press, 1916) [hb/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• The Encyclopedia of Fantasy: Afterlife

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction edited by John Clute, David Langford, Peter Nicholls and Graham Sleight.
Accessed 08:16 am on 26 April 2024.
<https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/fisher_mary_a>