author
Edward T. Bouvé
1841–1920
Best known for the 1894 novel Centuries Apart, this Civil War veteran wrote an imaginative adventure that blends lost-world fantasy, alternate history, and the spirit of nineteenth-century exploration. His work still stands out for its unusual Antarctic setting and bold speculative premise.
1 Audiobook
The Fourth Massachusetts Cavalry in the Closing Scenes of the War for the Maintenance of the Union, from Richmond to Appomatox
by William B. (William Bennet) Arnold, Edward T. Bouvé, La Salle Corbell Pickett
About the author
Born in 1841, Edward T. Bouvé was an American author, naturalist, and Union Army officer. Reference sources consistently identify him as Edward Tracy Bouvé, and science-fiction reference works describe him as a soldier, naturalist, and writer who served in the Union Army during the Civil War and retired with the rank of major.
He is remembered today chiefly for Centuries Apart (1894). The novel sends a Civil War expedition into the far south, where the characters discover an isolated society in the heart of Antarctica. That mix of military adventure, lost-race fiction, and early speculative imagination has helped the book keep a small but lasting place in the history of fantastic literature.
Bouvé died in 1920. Although only a little biographical detail is easily confirmed from widely available sources, his reputation has endured through this one remarkably inventive novel, which continues to interest readers of early science fiction and nineteenth-century adventure fiction.