Interesting, but apparently not accurate. Wikipedia<\/a> tells us that it was Sloane’s son<\/i> who was Edison’s son-in-law, and not Sloane himself. And even though Wikipedia is known to be wrong from time to time, this wedding announcement from the December 3, 1912 issue of The New York Times<\/i><\/a> backs them up. So unless T O’Connor Sloane married Madeleine Edison after his son John Eyre Sloan died or divorced her, the assertion Michael R. Page makes in his introduction is incorrect.<\/p>\n Regardless of that, I find it fascinating that two Edison associates played such important roles in the creation of early science fiction. I think a neat alternate-history story could be written about that.<\/p>\n And come to think of it, there’s actually at least one more connection SF has with Edison, in that since the SCI FI Channel is owned by General Electric, a company which more than a century ago was known as the Edison General Electric Company, I’m actually employed by the corporation Edison himself founded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve long known that science fiction had a Thomas Edison connection, in that Ray Cummings, who wrote the classic novel The Girl in the Golden Atom, had worked for a time as Edison’s assistant. But it turns out that there’s a second Edison connection, as I’ve just learned from the introduction to Bison Book’s Miles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[319],"class_list":["post-10593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-thomas-edison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"ThomasEdison\"](\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ThomasEdison-191x300.jpg\")
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