Del 0 - Road to Science Fiction

Road to Science Fiction: From Gilgamesh to Wells

Volume 1

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

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Now in Paperback!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.Cloth edition previously published in 1979.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2002-09-21
Mått154 x 227 x 20 mm
Vikt499 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoad to Science Fiction
Antal sidor368
FörlagScarecrow Press
ISBN9780810844148

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Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 The First Voyage to the MoonChapter 3 From A True Story—by Lucian of SamosataChapter 4 Strange Creatures and Far TravelingChapter 5 From The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville—AnonymousChapter 6 The Good Place That Is No PlaceChapter 7 From Utopia—by Thomas MoreChapter 8 The New Science and the Old ReligionChapter 9 From The City of the Sun—by Tommaso CampanellaChapter 10 Experience, Experiment, and the Battle for Men's MindsChapter 11 From The New Atlantisby Francis BaconChapter 12 A New Look at the Heavens and Another Trip to the MoonChapter 13 Somnium, or Lunar Astronomy—by Johannes KeplerChapter 14 Commuting to the MoonChapter 15 From A Voyage to the Moon—by Cyrano de BergeracChapter 16 The Age of Reason and the Voice of DissentChapter 17 From "A Voyage to Laputa"—by Jonathan SwiftChapter 18 Imaginary Voyages in the Other DirectionChapter 19 From The Journey to the World Underground—by Ludvig HolbergChapter 20 Visitors From SpaceChapter 21 Micromegas—by Francois Marie Arouet de VoltaireChapter 22 Science and Literature: When Worlds CollideChapter 23 FromFrankenstein—by Mary ShelleyChapter 24 Science as SymbolChapter 25 Rappaccini's Daughter—by Nathaniel HawthorneChapter 26 Anticipations of the FutureChapter 27 Mellonta Tauta—by Edgar Allen PoeChapter 28 Expanding the VisionChapter 29 The Diamond Lens—by Fitz-James O'BrienChapter 30 The Indispensable FrenchmanChapter 31 From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the SeaChapter 32 From Around the Moon—by Jules VerneChapter 33 Lost Civilizations and Ancient KnowledgeChapter 34 From She—by H. Rider HaggardChapter 35 The New FrontierChapter 36 From Looking Backward—by Edward BellamyChapter 37 New Magazines, New Readers, New WritersChapter 38 The Damned Thing—by Ambrose BierceChapter 39 A Flying StartChapter 40 With the Night Mail—by Rudyard KiplingChapter 41 The Father of Modern Science FictionChapter 42 The Star—by H.G. WellsChapter 43 About the Editor

...provides one of the most comprehensive views of the field and should be required reading for all students of sf. It has withstood the test of time, with classic stories....Gunn's headnotes and introductions remain provocative, even years later. The Road to Science Fiction can be read as an historical document, one that says much about Gunn, his mind, and his take on sf as it does about the state of sf from its roots to its full maturity as a genre.