Edward Page Mitchell was an American editorial and short story writer for the New York Sun, a daily newspaper. He became that newspaper's editor in 1875, succeeding Charles Anderson Dana. Mitchell retired in 1926, a year before dying of a cerebral hemorrhage. Decades after his death, Mitchell was recognized as a major figure in the early development of the science fiction genre.

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  • Edward Page Mitchell was an American editorial and short story writer for the New York Sun, a daily newspaper. He became that newspaper's editor in 1875, succeeding Charles Anderson Dana. Mitchell retired in 1926, a year before dying of a cerebral hemorrhage. Decades after his death, Mitchell was recognized as a major figure in the early development of the science fiction genre. Mitchell wrote fiction about a man rendered invisible by scientific means ("The Crystal Man", published in 1881) before H.G. Wells's The Invisible Man, wrote about a time-travel machine ("The Clock that Went Backward") before Wells's The Time Machine, wrote about faster-than-light travel ("The Tachypomp"; now perhaps his best-known work) in 1874, a thinking computer and a cyborg in 1879, and also wrote the earliest known stories about matter transmission or teleportation ("The Man without a Body", 1877) and a superior mutant ("Old Squids and Little Speller"). "Exchanging Their Souls" (1877) is one of the earliest fictional accounts of mind transfer. The gradual discovery of Mitchell and his work is a direct result of the publication in 1973 of a book-length anthology of his stories, compiled by Sam Moskowitz with a detailed introduction by Moskowitz giving much information about Mitchell's personal life. Because Mitchell's stories were not by-lined on original publication, nor indexed, Moskowitz expended major effort to track down and collect these works by an author whom Moskowitz cited as "the lost giant of American science fiction". Mitchell's stories show the strong influence of Edgar Allan Poe. Among other traits, Mitchell shares Poe's habit of giving a basically serious and dignified fictional character a jokey name, such as "Professor Dummkopf" in Mitchell's "The Man Without a Body". Since Mitchell's fictions were originally published in newspapers, typeset in the same format as news articles and not identified as fiction, he may possibly have used this device to signal to his readers that this text should not be taken seriously.
  • Edward Page Mitchell, né en 1852 et décédé en 1927 est un écrivain de nouvelles et un rédacteur du New York Sun. On lui doit notamment L'homme le plus doué du monde (The Ablest Man in the World, 1879), une nouvelle de science-fiction où il imaginait comment le proto-ordinateur de Charles Babbage, miniaturisé par un horloger de génie, pourrait remplacer un cerveau humain. Méconnu de son temps comme de nos jours, Edward Page Mitchell a pourtant été extrêmement lu et imité.
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  • Edward Page Mitchell was an American editorial and short story writer for the New York Sun, a daily newspaper. He became that newspaper's editor in 1875, succeeding Charles Anderson Dana. Mitchell retired in 1926, a year before dying of a cerebral hemorrhage. Decades after his death, Mitchell was recognized as a major figure in the early development of the science fiction genre.
  • Edward Page Mitchell, né en 1852 et décédé en 1927 est un écrivain de nouvelles et un rédacteur du New York Sun. On lui doit notamment L'homme le plus doué du monde (The Ablest Man in the World, 1879), une nouvelle de science-fiction où il imaginait comment le proto-ordinateur de Charles Babbage, miniaturisé par un horloger de génie, pourrait remplacer un cerveau humain. Méconnu de son temps comme de nos jours, Edward Page Mitchell a pourtant été extrêmement lu et imité.
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