Thomas Kent Miller, Author

As an author, there are two very different Thomas Kent Millers. (1) One is firmly planted in the 1870s to the 1930s. This is made manifest by my interest in Victorian and Edwardian ghost stories, in the Hudson River School of landscape painting, in my two favorite authors, H. Rider Haggard and Arthur Machen, and in my love of Sherlock Holmes. (2) The other aspect of my personality resides squarely on the planet Mars as imagined by the science fiction cinema of the 1950s and 60s.

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Interactive Blog: Mars in the Movies: A History...Now With Endless Possibilities

The spaceship arriving at Mars.

Conquest of Space (1955) Part 3 of 3

Genre film authority Roy Kinnard has said in Fantastic Films magazine, June 1979, “In examining the plethora of 1950s science fiction movies which deal with the theme of mans’ journeying to other worlds in order to advance his own knowledge, George Pal’s production of Conquest of Space stands head and shoulders above the others...."

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My 3-year-old granddaughter and Marvin the Martian.

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Blog: Backstory of the Sussex Beekeeper at the Dawn of Time

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The Sussex Beekeeper at the Dawn of Time by Thomas Kent Miller tells of the lengths a man and a church would go to explain a two-millennia-old mystery. The setting of the novel is a Top Secret laboratory on the coast of Sierra Leone. Throughout, it's implied that the lab's infrastructure is so astoundingly immense it can only be inferred. Here's my chance to show what is behind the curtain. It's also a chance for the Beekeeper to put in a word about the message from the Dawn of Time.

Praise for "Holmes Behind the Veil"

“[The Sussex Beekeeper at the Dawn of Time is] a highly postmodern creation, conveying its narrative through many different sources, each inflected with different shades of irony or doubt. The author has structured the work as in one sense an ‘epistolary novel’ (perhaps ‘documentary novel’ might be a better term). One outer document leads to another, and these to further, inner documents, so that the reader experiences the book as if going through a series of doors in a labyrinth of secret passages. This approach is complex—the reader must keep their wits about them—and allusive. It asks for an alertness and constant curiosity. An impatient reader might be daunted by the layers of what appear to be preamble at the outset, but these are in fact essential to the way the book works. This experimental approach is accompanied, however, by a thorough understanding of the enthralling themes found in the mysteries and romances of the Haggardian tradition: ancient secrets, hidden adepts, enigmatic heroes, strange sects, resonant spiritual symbols, a quest across time and space. They are all there, even if not always laid out plainly in a linear plot. Instead, we must regard the book as like a curious crystal, which reveals some new dimension as each facet is caught in the light of our understanding.”

—Mark Valentine, fin de siècle authority, in Wormwoodiana

Thomas Kent Miller, Author

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