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James B. (James Bradun) Alexander

1831–1914

An early American speculative writer, he is remembered for a strange and imaginative 1909 novel that sends readers from Earth to the Moon and Mars through satire, dream logic, and big cosmic ideas.

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The Lunarian Professor and His Remarkable Revelations Concerning the Earth, the Moon and Mars Together with An Account of the Cruise of the Sally Ann

The Lunarian Professor and His Remarkable Revelations Concerning the Earth, the Moon and Mars Together with An Account of the Cruise of the Sally Ann

by James B. (James Bradun) Alexander

About the author

James Bradun Alexander was an American author born in Pennsylvania in July 1831. Reliable catalog and reference sources identify him as the writer of The Lunarian Professor and His Remarkable Revelations Concerning the Earth, the Moon and Mars; Together with an Account of the Cruise of the Sally Ann, published privately in Minneapolis in 1909.

That book is the work he is best known for today. Science-fiction reference sources describe it as a vivid early speculative tale, with a visiting Lunarian explaining life on the Moon, the future of Earth, and the development of Mars. The novel has survived well enough to be preserved by major digital libraries and Project Gutenberg, which helps keep Alexander visible to modern readers of early science fiction.

Available sources on his personal life are limited, but they consistently place his death in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on December 25, 1914. Because so little biographical detail is widely documented, Alexander remains one of those intriguing writers who are known mainly through a single unusual book.