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A deluxe edition of super-charged, original and classic short
stories. Featuring dystopia, post-apocalypse, time travel, robots
and more, this brilliant collection brings together the best of
today's writers (many stories previously unpublished), with an
eclectic range of science fiction masters including H. Rider
Haggard, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Philip Francis Nowlan, Edward Page
Mitchell and Jack London. An eclectic collection of SF adventure
tales. Perfect as a gift, and for years of reading pleasure.
Given that science fiction, in its many forms and genres, engages
in sometimes serious speculation about science, history, and all
types of social relations, and that its recurrent themes-such as
the concept of the alien, alternative identities, and the role of
technology-chime with so many contemporary anxieties and concerns,
it is perhaps no surprise that as early as 1960 Kingsley Amis was
able to remark (in his New Maps of Hell) that 'to read, and to
study, science fiction are valid and interesting pursuits from any
old point of view, whether literary, sociological, psychological,
political, or what you will'. Now, as serious academic work on
science fiction continues to blossom, this new four-volume
collection from Routledge meets the need for an authoritative
anthology to enable users to make better sense of the subject's
unwieldy body of scholarship, and the continuing explosion in
research output. The four volumes have been expertly edited by Andy
Sawyer of Liverpool University, home of Europe's largest catalogued
collection of SF material. Science Fiction is fully indexed and has
a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor. It is an
essential work of reference and will be valued by scholars and
students as a vital one-stop resource.
'The classic tale of alien invasion, and still the best' The Times
The first modern depiction of extra-terrestrials attacking the
earth, The War of the Worlds remains one of the most influential of
all science-fiction works. It shows the whole of human civilization
under threat, as terrifying, tentacled Martians land in England,
build gigantic killing machines, destroy all in their path with
black gas and burning rays and feast on the warm blood of trapped,
still-living human prey. The forces of the Earth, however, may
prove harder to beat than they at first appear. Edited by Patrick
Parrinder with an Introduction by Brian Aldiss and Notes by Andy
Sawyer
Herbert George Wells was perhaps best known as the author of such
classic works of science fiction as The Time Machine and War of the
Worlds. But it was in his short stories, written when he was a
young man embarking on a literary career, that he first explored
the enormous potential of the scientific discoveries of the day. He
described his stories as "a miscellany of inventions," yet his
enthusiasm for science was tempered by an awareness of its
horrifying destructive powers and the threat it could pose to the
human race. A consummate storyteller, he made fantastic creatures
and machines entirely believable; and, by placing ordinary men and
women in extraordinary situations, he explored, with humor, what it
means to be alive in a century of rapid scientific progress.
With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark
glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin - the new guest
at The Coach and Horses - is at first assumed to be a shy
accident-victim. But the true reason for his disguise is far more
chilling: he has developed a process that has made him invisible,
and is locked in a struggle to discover the antidote. Forced from
the village, and driven to murder, he seeks the aid of an old
friend, Kemp. The horror of his fate has affected his mind, however
- and when Kemp refuse to help, he resolves to wreak his revenge.
A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a
sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over two
hundred years. During his centuries of slumber, however,
investments are made that make him the richest and most powerful
man on Earth. But when he comes out of his trance he is horrified
to discover that the money accumulated in his name is being used to
maintain a hierarchal society in which most are poor, and more than
a third of all people are enslaved. Oppressed and uneducated, the
masses cling desperately to one dream - that the sleeper will
awake, and lead them all to freedom.
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