Quote of the day
You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else; only you're unexplained as yet—you've not got your niche in creation.
Garrett P. Serviss
Born: March 24, 1851
Died: May 25, 1929 (aged 78)
Bio: Garrett Putnam Serviss was an American astronomer, popularizer of astronomy, and early science fiction writer. Serviss was born in upstate New York and majored in science at Cornell University. He took a law degree at Columbia University but never worked as an attorney.
Known for:
- Edison's Conquest of Mars
- A Columbus of Space (1894)
- Curiosities of the Sky (1909)
- The Second Deluge (1912)
- The Moon Maiden