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DYJAN FERGUS, pseudonym of Montreal-born New Brunswick resident Ida May Ferguson (1869–1899), wrote a single work, one of the first Canadian science fiction novels and the first by a woman. Set in Montreal in 1996, a century after publication, the speculative elements are mostly minor. China is a world power; there is a war in Egypt between the British Empire and a Franco-Russian alliance; women have more opportunities for education, motorcars are common, and ships are faster. Otherwise, society is indistinguishable from the Victorian Era. The title character is a Chinese man who visits Canada with the goal of marrying