From: DJ Vollkasko (DJ_Vollkasko_at_gmx.net)
Date: Tue Dec 27 2005 - 11:52:42 PST
...the Temporary Newton Library is temporarily offline, which will
change as soon as the kind host of ours is back at HQ, and then it will
contain in the Fiction/Fantastic Literature directory below title which
I'm taking the liberty to give you as a gift. Another <yawn> one.
This ebook edition has been appended with the Wikipedia-article on L.
Frank Baum (who also wrote the Santa Claus fakography which I gave to
you two days ago). This title and any others from the library can also
be ordered from the undersigner by email as long as the library is on
Holiday leave, if you tell me which format you need.
Thanks,
'Kasko
P.S.: This book is *fun*! There's a device like the Newton in it
(crossed with tv card/movie newsreader tool), there is synthetic food
like vitamin and protein pills crossed with beef jerky, and many other
optimistically absurd electric devices.
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The Master Key
An Electrical Fairy Tale
Founded Upon The Mysteries Of Electricity
And The Optimism Of Its Devotees. It Was
Written For Boys, But Others May Read It
by L. Frank Baum
Vol. 5 in Project Gutenberg's L. Frank Baum-Series
With the Wikipedia-Article on the Author.
Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 - May 6, 1919) was an American author
and the creator of one of the most beloved classics of children's
literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (more on L.F. Baum:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Baum ).
This non-Oz early SciFi shows all the new wonders of electricity, right
to the absurd and utopian... Introduces the Demon of Electricity, who
declares Edison and Tesla not to know a thing about matters... Mars not
to be populated... and grants wishes to a boy-researcher who perchance
came upon the "Master Key of Electritiy", which lead to many dangerous
adventures around the globe!
Great children's tale, great proto-SF-story.
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