Before Jules Verne, Edgar Allan Poe imagined the Space Age
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…
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