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John Young Brown
| Full Name: |
John
Young
Brown |
| Born: |
Elizabethtown, Kentucky, USA |
| Occupation: |
Educator, Writer |
| Nationality: |
American |
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Biography
(1858-1921) US educator and author, almost certainly the son of Kentucky politician John Young Brown (1835-1902) and the father and grandfather of later Kentucky politicians who bore the same name, one of whom was governor of the state (1979-1983). The protagonist of his sf novel, To the Moon and Back in Ninety Days: A Thrilling Narrative of Blended Science and Adventure (1922), hitches a ride on a spaceship powered by Antigravity device to the Moon. The discovery of Selenites there turns out to be a hoax but the trip was real. The posthumous publication of the tale was arranged by residents of the small city of Providence, Kentucky, where Brown had been a popular teacher; he had indeed written his novel partly for educational purposes. In The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Critical and Biographical History (1991), Jack L Chalker and Mark Owings suggest that the novel may have been partially inspired by the magazine version of Hugo Gernsback's Ralph 124C41+ (April 1911-March 1912 Modern Electrics); they further argue that Lunar Publishing Co, the company created to publish To the Moon and Back, is the first genre imprint in the twentieth century.
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