I spent the last month working on the restoration of this novel. Here's the press release and a link to the Kickstarter page.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Cirsova Publishing is proud to announce that it has partnered with Michael Tierney and Robert Allen Lupton to restore and reprint Julian Hawthorne’s The Cosmic Courtship, a never-before-collected pulp Planetary Romance by the son of famed American author Nathaniel Hawthorne.
The Cosmic Courtship was serialized across four issues of All-Story magazine in 1917 and has never been reproduced in any format.
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Mary Faust, a brilliant scientist, has developed a machine that can allow the conscious human soul to explore the cosmos! Her promising young assistant Miriam Mayne has accidentally transferred her consciousness to Saturn, where she falls under the enchantment of an evil sorcerer! Jack Paladin, her love, sets out after her on a thrilling celestial journey to the ringed planet! Swashbuckling adventure and high romance await in Julian Hawthorne’s The Cosmic Courtship!
While most are at least somewhat familiar with Nathaniel Hawthorne as one of the great American authors, less well known is that his son Julian was an incredibly prolific writer in his own right. Julian wrote on a wide variety of subjects, ranging from literary analysis of his father’s works to poetry to period romances and adventures. Late in his career, Julian even dabbled in the emerging genre of Science Fiction.
The Cosmic Courtship was serialized in Frank A. Munsey’s All-Story Weekly across four issues, beginning with the November 24, 1917 issue and running through the December 15, 1917 issue. While this story has been in the public domain for some time, it has never been collected or published elsewhere until now.
Cirsova Publishing has taken on this exciting project with the aim of preserving this story for posterity and ensuring that it is not lost to future generations.
There is a Kickstarter campaign with pledging levels from $10.00 for a paperback to $60.00 for all four versions of the novel. paperback, magazine format' trade paperback and hardcover.
Help make this project a reality and receive a true first edition of a novel that hasn't seen print since 1917. The four magazine issues would cost several hundred dollars.
Amazing cover by Fred W. Small. We appreciate your support. If there is enough demand we hope to "save" at least one such novel a year.
