Bellona's Husband: A Romance
Bellona's Husband: A Romance is an 1887 science fiction novel by William James Roe, published under his pseudonym Hudor Genone. It is a tale of a utopian society on Mars where everyone ages backwards, identified by John Clute in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction as possibly the first story to revolve around the conceit.
Author William James Roe
William James Roe II was an American author, artist, philosopher, and businessman.
William James Roe
Photograph from a September 1914 interview, announcing his gradual retirement from writing
The William Roe Mansion in Newburgh, where three generations of the family lived.