A selection of science-fiction tales from the close of the 'Romantic' period to the end of the First World War. It gathers together classic short stories, from Edgar Allan Poe's playful hoaxes to Gertrude Barrows Bennett's feminist fantasy.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction
- Note on the Texts
- Select Bibliography
- A Chronology of the Origins of Science Fiction
- The Mortal Immortal
- The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
- Rappaccini's Daughter
- The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
- The Diamond Lens
- The Lifted Veil
- Pausodyne: A Great Chemical Discovery
- The Water-Devil. A Marine Tale
- The Crystal Egg
- 'Wireless'
- The Hall Bedroom
- The Country of the Blind
- The Machine Stops
- The Terror of Blue John Gap
- The Red One
- Friend Island
- The Comet
- Explanatory Notes
