Bibliograph

Future perfect, American science fiction of the nineteenth century, H. Bruce Franklin

Type

Label

Future perfect, American science fiction of the nineteenth century, H. Bruce Franklin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-102)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

short stories

Main title

Future perfect

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

711889

Responsibility statement

H. Bruce Franklin

Sub title

American science fiction of the nineteenth century

Summary

Work of serious scholarship that contains both fiction and criticism

Table Of Contents

[Part 1.] 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 ; The facts in the Case of M. Valdemar ; Mellonta Tauta -- [Part 2.] 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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