Before Jules Verne, Edgar Allan Poe imagined the Space Age
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It may be tempting to dismiss out of hand the notion that Edgar Allan Poe — popularly conceived of today as an almost mythic figure cloaked in ravens and tell-tale hearts — was the “grandfather of realistic spaceflight fiction” and had a significant effect on the conceptual development of the spacecraft. But it is no tall tale. The young orphan who walked the night-lit streets of Baltimore, the first American city with gas streetlamps, had a mind that strove to encompass not only the macabre but
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