| Edition |
Revised edition. |
| Description |
xi, 404 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Hawthorne and Poe: Nathaniel Hawthorne and science fiction -- The birthmark ; The artist of the beautiful ; Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Edgar Allan Poe and science fiction -- A tale of the Ragged Mountains ; The facts in the case of M. Valdemar ; Mellonta Tauta / Edgar Allen Poe. |
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Automata: Herman Melville and science fiction -- The bell-tower / Herman Melville -- Man as machine -- Dr. Materialismus / Frederic Jesup Stimson. |
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Marvelous inventions: The atoms of Chladni / J.D. Whelpley. |
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Medicine men: Jack London and science fiction -- A thousand deaths / Jack London. |
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Into the psyche: Thomas Wentworth Higginson and his dreamer -- The monarch of dreams / Thomas Wentworth Higginson -- Ambrose Bierce and science fiction -- A psychological shipwreck / Ambrose Bierce -- Edward Bellamy and science fiction -- To whom this may come / Edward Bellamy. |
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Space travel: The blindman's world / Edward Bellamy -- Washington Irving and science fiction -- The men of the moon / Washington Irving -- Fitz-James O'Brien and science fiction -- The diamond lens / Fitz-James O'Brien -- Dimensional speculation as science fiction -- Four-dimensional space / Anon. -- Mysterious disappearances / Ambrose Bierce -- from Four-dimensional space / Arthur E. Bostwick. |
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Time travel: Beyond the past -- Christmas 200,000 B.C. / Stanley Waterloo -- Mark Twain and science fiction -- From the London Times of 1904 / Mark Twain -- The perfect future -- In the year ten thousand / William Harben. |
| Subject |
Science fiction, American.
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| Indexed Term |
Science fiction in English American writers, 1800-1900 Anthologies |
| ISBN |
0195023226. |
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0195023234 (paperback) |
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