he lives happily ever after with the Princess, while the carpetbaggers must resort to selling Central Park balloon rides to newlyweds. Wetta and Novelli write that "the story... is imperfectly imagined; the writing is awkward" but is "revealing" as a demonstration of the Lost Cause narrative: "The fairy tale as metaphor reveals the magic thinking that turned Southern military defeat into a moral victory – shifting the burden of history from the shoulders of the Southerners to the Northerners and the newly freed slaves". In The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, John Clute notes the "equipoisal" nature of the novel freely mixing fantasy and science fiction elements and describes the moon utopia as "a purified vision of the antebellum South." References External links 1834 births 1916 deaths American women novelists People from Richmond, Virginia People from Warrenton, Virginia Catholics from Virginia