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'''''To Venus in Five Seconds: An Account of the Strange Disappearance of Thomas Plummer, Pillmaker''''' is a [[science fiction]] [[satire]] written by [[Fred T. Jane]], the author of the original ''[[Jane's Fighting Ships]]'' and the founder of what would in time become the [[Jane's Information Group]]. Published in [[1897 in literature|1897]], the novel pokes fun at several of the main subgenres of [[scientific romance]] that had become popular in the final years of the nineteenth century.<ref>Patrick Brantlinger and William B. Thesing, eds., ''A Companion to the Victorian Novel'', London, Blackwell, 2002; pp. 117–154, 370–384.</ref><ref>Jess Nevins, ''The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana'', Austin, TX, Monkeybrain Books, 2005.</ref>
In one aspect of his multifarious career, Jane spent much of the 1890s illustrating popular novels of speculative fiction, including [[Edgar Fawcett]]'s ''Hartmann the Anarchist'' (1893) and books by [[George Griffith]]. When he turned to writing his own novels, Jane parodied the types of fiction he illustrated—what were then called "scientific romances," and the novels of future war that were such a characteristic feature of popular literature in Britain in the decades before [[World War I]]<ref>George Locke and Takayuki Tatsumi, ''Sources of Science Fiction: Future War Novels of the 1890s'', London, Taylor & Francis, 1998.</ref><ref>Robert Holdstock, ed., ''Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'', London, Octopus Books, 1978; pp. 24–26.</ref>—books like
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