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Future Perfect - American Science Fiction of the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology (Paperback, Expanded Ed)
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Future Perfect - American Science Fiction of the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology (Paperback, Expanded Ed)
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This selection of unusual stories is by important American
writers-Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Bellamy and Twain-and by less
well-known tellers such as Ambrose Bierce, S. Weir Mitchell and
Fitz-James O'Brien, challenges the commonly held belief that
science fiction is a twentieth century phenomenon, or that it began
with Jules Verne and H. G. Wells. Here are tales of marvellous
inventions, automata, biological and psychological experiments,
utopias, extra-sensory perception and time and space travel. Many
of them have been out of print since before World War I, but they
remain high in intrinsic interest of the general reader and for the
specialist. The accompanying critical essays explore the
relationships between science fiction and other financial modes,
and illuminate the nature of the bonds between science and society
and fantasies and social aspirations. Professor Franklin also
offers an original, theoretical definition of science fiction. This
book comes as a revelation. One of the best-edited anthologies I
have ever encountered...Mr. Franklin's critical introductions,
containing much valuable information about many works not included
in this book, are as interesting as the stories he prints.
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