The Mummy!: A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century

At points, it was laugh-out-loud funny. Of course, the best part of any old sci-fi is the attempt at predicting scientific advances. Her world has some doozies. Perpetual motion machines run glass dust fountains to wear on your head. International balloon travel is available for the English. There i......more

"The ancient Egyptians you know, believed the souls of their mummies were chained to them in a torpid state till the final day of judgment, and supposing this hypotheses to be correct, there is every reason to imagine that by employing so powerful an agent as galvanism, re-animation may be produced.......more

A rather odd little book about a Mad Scientist (sort of) who revives, at the start of the 22nd century, an ancient Egyptian mummy. This book was written as an obvious reaction to Frankenstein, but, frankly, is quite a bit its inferior, though it chooses to portray the revived object in a benign - eve......more

The introductory was plain and very offensive to Egyptians. Picturing the people of Egypt as ignorant, Goth-like race of shepherds was undermining and insulting. They weren't the ones who imagined structuring the pyramids but they were those God-playing Greek immigrants, true. But they are pure Egyp......more

this book is soooooo funny because it dares to ask the question “what would happen if you brought a mummy back to life in the twenty second century and then dropped him off in england” and then the answer is “he would mostly be a very strange and haunting matchmaker, and also bring about the reunion......more