Willmoth the Wanderer

by Charles Curtis Dail

A young, unnamed American encounters Willmoth, a male humanoid who states he is from the planet Saturn and is hundreds of thousands of years old.

Willmoth begins the tale of how he came to be stranded on Earth long ago.

A pioneering work of early American science fiction.

Genres: Science Fiction

Paperback

Published January 1, 1890

Reviews

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"Willmoth the Wanderer, or The Man from Saturn (1890) by Charles Curtis Dail, flies about the solar system by smearing himself with an antigravity ointment. He arrives on a prehistoric Earth and creates homo sapiens by selective breeding." -Adam Roberts, The History of Science Fiction