The Great Romance: a science fiction/utopian novelette

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  • Dominic Alessio

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/knznq.v1i1.589

Abstract

The Great Romance,a science-fiction/utopian novelette, was published in two separate volumes in New Zealand in 1881. The first volume comprises 55 pages and, until recently, was apparently listed in only one published bibliography, Bagnall's New Zealand National Bibliography to the Year 1960. The sole known original copy of volume 1 exists in the AlexanderTurnbull Library (ATL), Wellington. Unlike the first volume, however, the second was presumed lost until the rediscovery of a single copy (of 39 pages) in the Hocken Library, Dunedin (ref: PA 176/5). Apparently it had once formed part of Dr. Hocken's original collection. Both volumes are now included in Lyman Tower Sargent's bibliography of New Zealand utopian literature. Thenovel, however, remains virtually unknown and has received attention only in specialist SF publications (Alessio1993, 1995).

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Dominic Alessio

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Published

1998-06-06