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The Road to Science Fiction - From Wells to Heinlein (Paperback)
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The Road to Science Fiction - From Wells to Heinlein (Paperback)
Series: The Road to Science Fiction
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Now in Paperback! 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
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