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The Road to Science Fiction: From Gilgamesh to Wells Vol 1
The Road to Science Fiction From Gilgamesh to Wells Vol 1
Author: James Gunn (Editor)
The Road to Science Fiction: From Gilgamesh to Wells Vol 1The 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 antho...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780451618504
ISBN-10: 0451618505
Publication Date: 9/1/1977
Pages: 404
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Publisher: Mentor - New American Library
Book Type: Paperback
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* 1 ⢠Introduction (The Road to Science Fiction #1) ⢠(1977) ⢠essay by James E. Gunn
* 15 ⢠The First Voyage to the Moon ⢠(2007) ⢠essay by James E. Gunn
* 16 ⢠A True Story (Excerpt) ⢠(1965) ⢠shortfiction by Lucian of Samosata
* 28 ⢠Strange Creatures and Far Traveling ⢠(2007) ⢠essay by James E. Gunn
* 31 ⢠The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville (Excerpt, chap XVIII-XIX) ⢠(1950) ⢠shortfiction by Anonymous
* 38 ⢠The Good Place That is No Place ⢠(2007) ⢠essay by James E. Gunn
* 41 ⢠Utopia (book II) (Excerpt) ⢠(1516) ⢠shortfiction by Sir Thomas More
* 48 ⢠The New Science and the Old Religion ⢠(2007) ⢠essay by James E. Gunn
* 49 ⢠The City of the Sun (Excerpt) ⢠(1923) ⢠shortfiction by Tommaso Campanella
* 60 ⢠Experience, Experiment, and the Battle for Men's Minds ⢠(2007) ⢠essay by James E. Gunn
* 61 ⢠The New Atlantis (Excerpt) ⢠(1926) ⢠shortfiction by Francis Bacon
* 84 ⢠A New Look at the Heavens and Another Trip to the Moon ⢠(2007) ⢠essay by James E. Gunn
* 86 ⢠Somnium, or Lunar Astronomy ⢠(1934) ⢠shortstory by Johannes Kepler
* 103 ⢠Commuting to the Moon ⢠(2007) ⢠essay by James E. Gunn
* 105 ⢠A Voyage to the Moon (Excerpt) ⢠(1957) ⢠shortfiction by Cyrano de Bergerac
* 112 ⢠The Age of Reason and the Voice of Dissent ⢠(2007) ⢠essay by James E. Gunn
* 115 ⢠A Voyage to Laputa (Excerpt chap. I-VI of Gulliver's Travels) ⢠(1926) ⢠shortfiction by Jonathan Swift
* 151 ⢠Imaginary Voyages in the Other Direction ⢠(2007) ⢠essay by James E. Gunn
* 154 ⢠The Journey to the World Underground (Excerpt chap. I) ⢠(1941) ⢠shortfiction by Ludvig Holberg
* 161 ⢠Science and Literature: When Worlds Collide ⢠(2007) ⢠essay by James E. Gunn
* 164 ⢠Frankenstein (Excerpt chap 5 and 10) ⢠(1818) ⢠shortfiction by Mary Shelley
* 177 ⢠Science as Symbol ⢠(2007) ⢠essay by James E. Gunn
* 180 ⢠Rappaccini's Daughter ⢠(1844) ⢠novelette by Nathaniel Hawthorne
* 209 ⢠Anticipations of the Future ⢠(2007) ⢠essay by James E. Gunn
* 212 ⢠Mellonta Tauta ⢠(1849) ⢠shortstory by Edgar Allan Poe
* 226 ⢠Expanding the Vision ⢠(2007) ⢠essay by James E. Gunn
* 228 ⢠The Diamond Lens ⢠(1858) ⢠novelette by Fitz-James O'Brien
* 253 ⢠The Indispensable Frenchman ⢠(2007) ⢠essay by James E. Gunn
* 256 ⢠Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Excerpt chap. X-XII) ⢠(1869) ⢠shortfiction by Jules Verne
* 270 ⢠Around the Moon (chap. XVII-XVIII) (Excerpt) ⢠(1869) ⢠shortfiction by Jules Verne
* 289 ⢠Lost Civilizations and Ancient Knowledge ⢠(2007) ⢠essay by James E. Gunn
* 292 ⢠She (Excerpt chap. XXIV-XXV) ⢠(1886) ⢠shortfiction by H. Rider Haggard
* 312 ⢠The New Frontier ⢠(2007) ⢠essay by James E. Gunn
* 315 ⢠Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (Excerpt chap. 1-5) ⢠(1888) ⢠shortfiction by Edward Bellamy
* 343 ⢠The Star ⢠(1897) ⢠shortstory by H. G. Wells
* 345 ⢠New Magazines, New Readers, New Writers ⢠(2007) ⢠essay by James E. Gunn
* 347 ⢠The Damned Thing ⢠(1893) ⢠shortstory by Ambrose Bierce
* 357 ⢠A Flying Start ⢠(2007) ⢠essay by James E. Gunn
* 359 ⢠With the Night Mail ⢠(1905) ⢠novelette by Rudyard Kipling
* 380 ⢠The Father of Modern Science Fiction ⢠(2007) ⢠essay by James E. Gunn
* 394 ⢠A Selected Bibliography of Books About Science Fiction ⢠(1977) ⢠essay by James E. Gunn
* 396 ⢠A Basic Science-Fiction Library ⢠(1977) ⢠essay by James E. Gunn
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