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Overview: Assembled by a legendary science-fiction author and editor, this compilation presents nearly 30 early tales of futuristic societies, rogue stars, rebellious machines, and other now-familiar subjects of speculative fiction. These formative short stories, originally published between 1835–1924, include works by Poe, Hawthorne, Bierce, Wells, London, and Kipling, as well as lesser-known authors
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Contains:
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion by Egar Allen Poe
A Heavenward Voyage by S Henry Berthoud
The Artist of the Beautiful by Nathaniel Hawthorne
What Was It? by Fitz-James O’Brien
The End of the World by Eugene Mouton
A Paradoxical Ode (After Shelley) by James Clark Maxwell
The Ablest Man in the World by Edward Page Mitchell
Josuah Electricmann by Ernest D’Hervilly
The Child of the Phalanstery by Grant Allen
The Salvation of Nature by John Davidson
Tornadres by J.-H. Rosny
Professor Bakermann’s Microbe by Charles Epheyre
In the Year Ten Thousand by Edgar Fawcett
The Revolt of the Machines by Émile Goudeau
For the Akhoond by Ambrose Bierce
The Philosophy of Relative Existences by Frank R. Stockton
June 1993 by Julian Hawthorne
The Dancing Partner by Jerome K. Jerome
The Conqueror of Death by Camille Debans
The Star by H. G. Wells
A Corner in Lightning by George Griffith
The Memory Cell by Walter Besant
The Shadow and the Flash by Jack London
The Gorilloid by Edmond Haraucourt
The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson
The Singular Fate of Bouvancourt by Maurice Renard
The Horror of the Heights by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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