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The Road to Science Fiction
From Gilgamesh to Wells
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2002
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Between an ancient Roman's trip to the moon and the fantastic tales of H.G. Wells lies a journey through time and space and an awesome evolution in scientific thinking. From Gilgamesh's search for immortality to Lucian's odyssey on the moon; from Jonathan Swift's hilarious satire on scientists in Gulliver's Travels to Mary Shelley's horrifying description of a scientist who has gone too far in Frankenstein from Edgar Allan Poe's balloon trip in the year 2848 to Jules Verne's prophesies of the impact of scientific inventions on future civilization; from Edward Bellamy's utopian escape from the industrial Revolution to H.G. Wells's magnificent story of Earth threatened by an inescapable menace-here are the chief ancestors of the modern science fiction story. For the first time, these and other key works are gathered together in one anthology, complete with revealing commentary on the authors, their eras, and the role each played in establishing what we today recognize as science fiction.
The Road to Science Fiction is a six-volume anthology of science fiction that covers the development of science fiction from its earliest prototypes in the Sumerian Gilgamesh and the Greek epics to approximately 1990. Created originally to provide anthologies for use in classes, these volumes have become mass-market sellers as well, since they are not only a source of outstanding stories but also explain what constitutes science fiction, how it developed and the contribution the authors and the stories have made to the evolution of science fiction.
Cloth edition previously published in 1979.
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Copyright year
2002
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-4414-8
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-7352-1
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
349
Product type
Edited Book
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Dedication Page No access
Table of Contents No access
Introduction No access
From A True Story No access
From the Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville No access
From Utopia No access
From the City of the Sun No access
From the New Atlantis No access
Somnium, or Lunar Astronomy No access
From A Voyage to the Moon No access
From "A Voyage to Laputa" No access
From the Journey to the World Underground No access
From Micromegas No access
From Frankenstein No access
Rappaccini's Daughter No access
Mellonta Tauta No access
The Diamond Lens No access
From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea No access
