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Tucker, George (1775-1861)
Science fiction writer (pseudonym: Joseph Atterley) and Chairman of the Faculty of The University of Virginia while Edgar Allan Poe was a student. In A Voyage to the Moon with Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians (New York: Elam Bliss, 1827), he describes a trip to the Moon involving a spacecraft coated with the first antigravitic metal in literature, a forerunner of H. G. Wells’ Cavorite.
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