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| | The SF Site Featured Review: Gullivar of Mars |
 | | Edwin L. Arnold Son of Sir Edwin Arnold (1832-1904), the famous orientalist, journalist (chief editor of the London Daily Telegraph), and author of the long narrative epic The Light of Asia (1879), Edwin Lester Linden Arnold (1875-March 1, 1935) was born in Swanscombe, Kent, England and spent most of his childhood in India. |
 | | Arnold followed his Phra success with similar stories, the novelette Rutherford the Twice-Born [The Idler, 1892; collected in The Story of Ulla (1895)], and the somewhat tongue-in-cheek Lepidus the Centurion: A Roman of Today (1901) [reprint Arno Press, 1978], which flopped. |
 | | Likewise, Arnold owes a significant debt to H.G. Wells, as the beautiful yet slothful Hither Folk and the barbaric yet industrious Thither Folk are clearly cut from the same mould as the Eloi and Morlocks from The Time Machine. |
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