[NICOLSON (Joseph Shield).]

Thoth. A Romance.

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons. 1888 First edition. Original orange cloth. 8vo. pp. vi, 209. Suvin "Victorian Science Fiction in the UK" page 36: "At the time of Pericles, Athenian beauty kidnapped to city in desert, with submarines, airships, electric light, and other modern devices, all provided long ago by Egyptian Thoth the First; he and his descendants are in suspended animation. Static perfection with misogony leads to degeneration, 'Thoth-at-present,' in love with Athenian, determines to reverse the policy, fights with awakened ancestors, city destroyed." Locke "A Spectrum of Fantasy" volume I, page 16, remarking that the work is "one of my favourite stories of this kind." A classic work of science fiction. Cloth rather soiled. 24 pp. undated advertisements.

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