James De Mille - MiC Entry

James De Mille

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James De Mille was born in 1833 in St John New Brunswick and died in 1880. He wrote about 30 books in his career most of them mainstream. One exception is A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder which is considered Canada's first science fiction novel. It was originally published in London, England, by Chatto & Windus in 1888 and was serialized in Harpers Weekly in the U.S. during the same year. It was finally published in Canada by McClelland and Stewart in 1969.

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