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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 in paperback, 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.
Volume 2: From Wells to Heinlein, samples the science fiction of the first 40 years of the 20th century from a wide variety of authors that paved the way for the Golden Age.
Cloth edition originally published in 1979
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 Science: The New Accelerator
Chapter 4 The New Accelerator-by H.G. Wells
Chapter 5 The Literary Dissent
Chapter 6 The Machine Stops-by E.M. Forster
Chapter 7 Islands in the Sky, Or Romance Triumphant
Chapter 8 FromUnder the Moons of Mars-by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Chapter 9 More Things Under Heaven and Earth
Chapter 10 The Moon Pool-by A. Merritt
Chapter 11 The Call of the Fantastic
Chapter 12 The Red One-by Jack London
Chapter 13 The Horror Out of Providence
Chapter 14 Dagon-by H.P. Lovecraft
Chapter 15 The Science-Fiction Magazine Begins Its Amazing Career
Chapter 16 The Tissue-Culture King-by Julian Huxley
Chapter 17 Pedestrian Words, Soaring Concepts
Chapter 18 The Revolt of the Pedestrians-by David H. Keller, M.D.
Chapter 19 The Philosopher of Time and Space
Chapter 20 FromLast and First Men-by Olaf Stapledon
Chapter 21 Ford's in His Flivver
Chapter 22 FromBrave New World-by Aldous Huxley
Chapter 23 The Alien from Milwaukee
Chapter 24 A Martian Odyssey-by Stanley G. Weinbaum
Chapter 25 Who Went There
Chapter 26 Twilight-by John W. Campbell
Chapter 27 The Idea Machine
Chapter 28 Proxima Centauri-by Murray Leinster
Chapter 29 The World-Wrecker on Mars
Chapter 30 What's It Like Out There?-by Edmond Hamilton
Chapter 31 The Legion of Science Fiction
Chapter 32 With Folded Hands-by Jack Williamson
Chapter 33 Mission of Levity
Chapter 34 Hyperpilosity-by L. Sprague de Camp
Chapter 35 The Alchemists Gather
Chapter 36 The Faithful-by Lester del Rey
Chapter 37 The Fairy Tales of Science
Chapter 38 Black Destroyer-by A.E. van Vogt
Chapter 39 The Stars Appear
Chapter 40 Nightfall-by Isaac Asimov
Chapter 41 The Man Who Sold the Genre
Chapter 42 Requiem-by Robert A. Heinlein
Chapter 43 A chronology of Science Fiction
Chapter 44 About the Editor
Product details
| Published | 27 Aug 2002 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 536 |
| ISBN | 9780810844391 |
| Imprint | Scarecrow Press |
| Dimensions | 229 x 152 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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