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George Chesney

British author

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science fiction

  • starship Enterprise
    In science fiction: Mass markets and juvenile science fiction

    …as seen, for example, in George Chesney’s short story The Battle of Dorking (1871). First published in Blackwood’s Magazine, The Battle of Dorking darkly postulated a Prussian defeat of a poorly armed, weak, and unwary Britain and established the military techno-thriller. Chesney used his urgent narrative of the near future…

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