John Munro (author)

For other people with the same name, see John Munro (disambiguation).

John Munro (1849-1930) was a British professor of mechanical engineering at Bristol and author who wrote the science fiction stories A Trip to Venus (1897), Sun-Rise in the Moon (1894) and A Message from Mars (1895).^[1] A Message from Mars was included as the first chapter of A Trip to Venus, and A Trip to Venus was included in Farewell, Fantastic Venus by Brian Aldiss and Harry Harrison. Munro also wrote Heroes of the Telegraph (1891) and other historical and reference books, such as A pocket-book of electrical rules and tables for the use of electricians and engineers (1884)^{[citation needed]}. Because they were published before 1925, most of Munro's works are in the public domain.

John Munro
Born	1849 Bristol
Died	(1930-12-19)19 December 1930 Bishopston, Bristol, England
Nationality	British
Occupation(s)	Mechanical engineer, writer
Notable work	A Trip to Venus, Heroes of the Telegraph

Works

Science fiction

• A Trip to Venus, 1897^[2]
• A Message from Mars, in the March issue of Cassell's Magazine in 1895^[1]
• Sun-Rise in the Moon, in the October issue of Cassell's Magazine in 1894^[1]

Electricity and Technology

• Electricity and Its Uses, 1887^{[citation needed]}
• The Wire and the Wave^{[citation needed]}
• Pioneers of Electricity, 1890^{[citation needed]}
• Heroes of the Telegraph, 1891^{[citation needed]}
• The Story of Electricity, 1902^{[citation needed]}
• Romance of Electricity, 1893^{[citation needed]}
• A pocket-book of electrical rules and tables for the use of electricians and engineers by John Munro and Andrew Jamieson, 1894^{[citation needed]}

Other

• The Story of the British race, 1909^[3]
• Lord Kelvin, G.C.V.O. (biography), 1902^[4]