This anthology gathers together seventeen gripping tales from the nineteenth and early twentieth century that make up the foundations of science fiction.
This anthology gathers together seventeen gripping tales from the nineteenth and early twentieth century that make up the foundations of science fiction.
Michael Newton is the author of avage Girls and Wild Boys: A History of Feral Children (2002) and Age of Assassins: A History of Conspiracy and Political Violence, 1865-1981 (2012). On the subject of cinema, he has written Show People: A History of the Film Star (2019) and books on Kind Hearts and Coronets (2003) and Rosemary's Baby (2020) for the BFI Film Classics series. He has edited Edmund Gosse's Father and Son and Victorian Fairy Tales for Oxford World's Classics, and Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent and The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories for Penguin Classics, and co-edited the anthology, Literature and Science, 1660-1834: Science as Polite Culture (2002). He teaches literature and film at Leiden University.
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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
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
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