Note: The full text and images of the second edition from 1828, Volume I are available at The Internet Archive. The full text and images of the second edition from 1828, Volume II are available at The Internet Archive. The full text and images of the second edition from 1828, Volume III are available at The Internet Archive. Originaly published anonymously in 1827, and then quickly reprinted in 1828 (Both editions in 3 volumes). Published again in 1872 in a larger format and single volume. There are 'hints' in Worldcat (OCLC 233789323) and elsewhere that a printing was planned in 1988 by the publisher Yankee Book Peddler with an ISBN of 0915431033, but Worldcat shows no copies and only a single reference to this ISBN can be found online easily. The 1994 release is a significant abridgment of the original work, but is the most accessible printed copy in the English language. There are further hints in Worldcat that there may be a German translation from and also a Vietnamese abridgment out there, but further research is needed to confirm these publications and their details.

Synopsis: "In the year 2126, England enjoyed peace and tranquility under the absolute dominion of a female sovereign." Not such a surprising first sentence for a science fiction novel, until you realize that Webb wrote The Mummy! in 1827. Her vision of technological progress knocks me out: everything is steam powered; women wear big hats with fantastic, lit-up neon tubes instead of ostrich feathers; weather control increases crop productivity; passengers on trans-continental aerial balloon flights sleep on comfy air mattresses. But for some wacky reason, women still can't vote! Read it for the weirdness of shocking a mummy to life with a large galvanic battery, and try not to expect much from the plot, which is slow and romance-novelly. (Liz Henry - ehenry@vertex.ucls.uchicago.edu)