Author: Andrew Blair
Author: Andrew Blair (1849–1885)
Biography: Andrew Blair was born in 1849 in Dunfermline, Scotland, the eldest son of Bailie Thomas Blair. He practiced medicine at Coupar-Angus, Strathkinnes, Ceres, and Tayport. Blair also was an amatuer experimental chemist. His only foray into fiction is the anonymous science fiction novel Annals of the Twenty-Ninth Century: or, The Autobiography of the Tenth President of the World-Republic (1874). Notably, the novel foresees X-rays, which were not to be discovered until 1895. Blair died in 1885 in Tayport, Scotland.
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References: Erskine Beveridge, A Bibliography of Works Relating to Dunfermline and the West of Fife (1901)
Fiction Titles:
- Annals of the Twenty-Ninth Century: or, The Autobiography of the Tenth President. 3 vol. London: Samuel Tinsley, 1874.