MEMOIRS FROM A JOURNEY WITH THE FLYING FISH "PROMETHEUS" (1870) - Written by Danish author Vilhelm Bergsoe. I shortened the title in the heading for this blog post. Some editions shorten it even more, to just Flying Fish Prometheus.
This story was originally serialized in three issues of Illustreret Tidende from January 9th to January 23rd of 1870. Memoirs ... Prometheus is a piece of speculative science fiction set in the "far off year" 1969. William Stone is the main character and narrator of the tale.
Stone is Danish and works for a company digging an underwater tunnel connecting Sweden and Denmark. Our main character receives an invitation (as a professional courtesy) to fly to Panama to witness the opening of the Panama Canal. You have to smile when speculative sci-fi is actually pessimistic about how long certain accomplishments will take. Remember the Russian sci-fi story setting the first moon landing in the year 2017?
William's American colleagues send the new airship Prometheus to fetch him. The Prometheus is cigar-shaped (like so many UFOs would be described decades later) and sports wings plus propellors. Our man Stone boards the airship in Koege, along with other passengers including his love interest Anna Blue.
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