Seems like humans are still kind of stuck in the same old loop, doesn't it?Ĭoffee's still brewing, so this may not be the most sterling post in LT Talk history. This probably influenced Poe in the writing of this story, although it was written before the doomsday prediction went the way of all such - with a whimper instead of a bang. So, despite scientific advances, superstitious dread (and exploitation of same) could still hold sway. In 1845 Miller founded the Adventist church. Second Adventists climbed onto their roofs and haystacks in order to be nearer heaven or assembled in cemeteries to be closer to the resurrected dead. Expectation became fixed on 22 October 1844. Signs in the heavens were reported: a meteoric shower, strange rings around the sun, crosses in the sky, a great comet at high noon that for days ominously overhead. Interesting note in the SFoEAP volume - contemporaneous to the writing of "The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion", a Father Miller in 1831 created a great uproar, predicting the end of the world in 1843 (subsequently shifted to 1844):Īt least 120 camp meetings were held during the summer months of 1842-1844 with an estimated attendance of half a million. what area of letters didn't Edgar stand on its head?
Horror, science fiction, detective fiction, journalism.
This is definitely a lesser work, but reading this story in The Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe brought to my attention the great influence Poe had on folks like Jules Verne, who would go on to set the science fiction paradigm.
Well, I suppose that taken in the context of the exciting time it was written, when scientific advances in all fields were revolutionizing modern society, it was inevitable that a ground breaker like Poe would attempt to use scientific principles to explain away biblical prophecy.
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