Diamond Lens and Other Strange Tales, The by Fitz-James O'Brien (from the SciFan database of Fantasy & SF novels, anthologies, collections)


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	Diamond Lens and Other Strange Tales, The, by Fitz-James O'Brien


	Collection, first publication in August 2002

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	Fitz-James O'Brien lived only 33 years -- from 1828 till 1862 -- but in his brief life he left a mark that endures today. O'Brien endures because he was a remarkable writer. Remarkable indeed! He had a way of blending of hard fact with almost-fanciful fantasy, juxtaposing technology and mysticism, creating convincing and "scientific" settings that play against the otherworldly romance. For all the weird fancifulness -- these days O'Brien is read mostly as a successor to Poe -- his work has qualities we now associate with science fiction: O'Brien clearly researched the field of microscopy before he wrote _The Diamond Lens_; it reads in places like hard SF.



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