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<\/a><\/p>\nRead a transcript of this story page.<\/a><\/p>\n Littell\u2019s short story is creative and fun and a definite foreshadow to his future life as a writer, but it also unexpectedly links the Littell papers to another collection acquired by the Special Collections Research Center in 2010, the manuscript and illustrations for Peter Caledon Cameron\u2019s Nodnol <\/em>(circa 1900).\u00a0 Part of Temple\u2019s Science Fiction and Fantasy collection, this manuscript takes the reader on an expedition to the Antarctic, where among other things, a new race of people are discovered.\u00a0 The people found inhabiting the South Pole prove to be far less aggressive than those encountered on Mars by Littell\u2019s Jim and the professor, but both stories speak to the early 20th<\/sup> century\u2019s fascination with discovery and encountering new worlds.\u00a0 By the time Littell wrote, the race to the South Pole was over and space was beginning to take shape as the newest, unexplored frontier.<\/p>\n \u201cNodnol. The narrative of a Voyage for scientific investigation into the Antarctic Regions, the discovery of Astrogee, a Second Satellite or New World, resting on the South Pole of Our Earth, its exploration, its strange fauna and flora, its marvellous [sic] natural phenomena, its wonderful nations of civilized Quadrumana and its glorious population of perfect Humanity.\u201d 279 pages, annotated and edited by the author, with a separate portfolio of seventeen signed illustrations in pen and ink.<\/p>\n Purchased in May 2010 for the\u00a0 SCRC’s Science Fiction and Fantasy Collection, the\u00a0Nodnol<\/em> manuscript was written and illustrated by the English-American water-colorist Peter Caledon Cameron (active in the U.S., coming from England, 1880s-1930s?; Philadelphia\/New Jersey area) and is typical of 19th and early 20th century fantasy and science fiction writing and illustrating.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n –Courtney Smerz, Project Archivist<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Franklin Littell grew up to be a prolific writer of religious history, but he may have gotten his\u00a0start\u00a0writing science fiction. \u00a0When he was just 11 years old (circa 1928), he wrote \u201cA Trip to Mars.\u201d\u00a0 In this story, a young student of astronomy named Jim journeys to Mars with his professor.\u00a0 They travel in a … Continue reading Notes from the Littell Project: Sci Fi Writings<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n