Future Perfect: American Science Fiction of the Nineteenth Century
An Anthology
by H. Bruce Franklin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, and Ambrose Bierce
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Hawthorne and Poe:
Hawthorne. Nathaniel Hawthorne and science fiction ; The birthmark ; The artist of the beautiful ; Rappaccini's daughter --
Poe. Edgar Allan Poe and science fiction ; A tale of the Ragged Mountains ; Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar ; Mellonta Tauta --
Explorations: Automata. Herman Melville and science fiction ; The bell-tower ; Man as machine ; Dr. Materialismus --
Marvelous inventions. The atoms of Chladni --
Medicine men. Was he dead? --
Into the psyche. Thomas Wentworth Higginson and his dreamer ; The monarch of dreams ; Ambrose Bierce and science fiction ; A psychological shipwreck --
Edward Bellamy and science fiction ; To whom this may come --
Space travel. The blindman's world ; Fitz-James O'Brien and science fiction ; The diamond lens ; Dimensional speculation as science fiction ; Four-dimensional space ; Mysterious disappearances ; From "Four-dimensional space" --
Time travel. Beyond the past ; Christmas 200,000 B.C. ; Mark Twain and science fiction ; From the "London Times" of 1904 ; Perfect future ; In the year ten thousand ; The present perfect.
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short stories, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, Fiction, short story, Mesmerism, suspense, horror, hoaxes, narration, pseudoscience, Hypnagogia, animal magnetism, hypnotism, tuberculosis, gothic fiction, science fiction, 19th century American fiction, American fiction, American Science fiction, History and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, Science fiction, american, American fiction (collections)People
Aylmer, Georgiana, Giacomo Rappaccini, Giovanni Guasconti, Beatrice Rappaccini, Ernest Valdemar, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Fitz James O'Brien, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Ambrose Bierce, Edward BellamyPlaces
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Future Perfect: American Science Fiction of the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology
January 19, 1995, Rutgers University Press
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Future perfect: American science fiction of the nineteenth century : an anthology
1995, Rutgers University Press
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Future perfect: American science fiction of the nineteenth century
1978, Oxford University Press
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Future Perfect: American science fiction of the nineteenth century
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"All fiction presumably seeks to represent some part of "reality," which includes the past, all possible futures, and the dreams and nightmares of the present, that is, everything conceivable."
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