1827 – Jane Webb’s The Mummy!

Much like Mary Shelley, Jane Webb was a teenager mourning a death in her family when she decided to write her first novel. And much like Frankenstein, that novel laid the foundation for many features of science fiction. But The Mummy! is more than just an imitation…

Sources:
Jane Webb Loudon, The Mummy! unabridged from Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56426
Jane Webb Loudon, The Mummy! edited and with an introduction by Alan Rauch: https://www.amazon.com/Mummy-Twenty-Second-Century-Arbor-Paperbacks/dp/0472065742/ref=sr_1_1
Bruce Ware Allen, “Jane Webb Loudon” in A History Bloghttp://ahistoryblog.com/2012/07/24/jane-webb-loudon-1807-1858/
SJ Chambers, “The Corpse of the Future” in Clarkesworldhttp://clarkesworldmagazine.com/chambers_12_12/

Music:
“Shattered Paths” by Aakash Gandhi
We Always Thought the Future Would Be Kind of Fun” by Chris Zabriskie
“Impending Boom” by Kevin MacLeod
“Cold Funk” by Kevin MacLeod
“I Am a Man Who Will Fight for Your Honor” by Chris Zabriskie

This episode features the voices of Curtis Matzke and Ellie Schwartz.

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