The Road to Science Fiction: From Gilgamesh to Wells: Volume 1 by James Gunn
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Overview: Between an ancient Roman’s trip to the moon and the fantastic tales of H.G. Wells lies a journey through time and space and an awesome evolution in scientific thinking. From Gilgamesh’s search for immortality to Lucian’s odyssey on the moon; from Jonathan Swift’s hilarious satire on scientists in Gulliver’s Travels to Mary Shelley’s horrifying description of a scientist who has gone too far in Frankenstein from Edgar Allan Poe’s balloon trip in the year 2848 to Jules Verne’s prophesies of the impact of scientific inventions on future civilization; from Edward Bellamy’s utopian escape from the industrial Revolution to H.G. Wells’s magnificent story of Earth threatened by an inescapable menace-here are the chief ancestors of the modern science fiction story. For the first time, these and other key works are gathered together in one anthology, complete with revealing commentary on the authors, their eras, and the role each played in establishing what we today recognize as science fiction.
The Road to Science Fiction is a six-volume anthology of science fiction that covers the development of science fiction from its earliest prototypes in the Sumerian Gilgamesh and the Greek epics to approximately 1990. Created originally to provide anthologies for use in classes, these volumes have become mass-market sellers as well, since they are not only a source of outstanding stories but also explain what constitutes science fiction, how it developed and the contribution the authors and the stories have made to the evolution of science fiction.
Genre: Science Fiction
Contents:
Road To Science Fiction 1 : A True Story [short story] – Lucian Samosata
Road To Science Fiction 1 : The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville [short story] – Anonymous Anonymous
Road To Science Fiction 1 : Utopia [short story] – Sir Thomas More
Road To Science Fiction 1 : The City of the Sun [short story] – Tommaso Campanella
Road To Science Fiction 1 : The New Atlantis [short story] – Francis Bacon
Road To Science Fiction 1 : Somnium or Lunar Astronomy – Johannes Kepler
Road To Science Fiction 1 : A Voyage to the Moon [short story] – Cyrano de Bergerac
Road To Science Fiction 1 : A Voyage to Laputa [short story] – Jonathan Swift
Road To Science Fiction 1 : The Journey to the World Underground [short story] – Ludwig Holberg
Road To Science Fiction 1 : Frankenstein [short story] – Mary Shelley
Road To Science Fiction 1 : Rappaccini’s Daughter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Road To Science Fiction 1 : Mellonta Tauta – Edgar Allan Poe
Road To Science Fiction 1 : The Diamond Lens – Fitz-James O’Brien
Road To Science Fiction 1 : Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea [short story] – Jules Verne
Road To Science Fiction 1 : Around the Moon [short story] – Jules Verne
Road To Science Fiction 1 : She [short story] – H. Rider Haggard
Road To Science Fiction 1 : Looking Backward [short story] – Edward Bellamy
Road To Science Fiction 1 : The Damned Thing – Ambrose Bierce
Road To Science Fiction 1 : With the Night Mail – Rudyard Kipling
Road To Science Fiction 1 : The Star – H. G. Wells
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