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Book Review of The Road to Science Fiction: From Gilgamesh to Wells Vol 1

The Road to Science Fiction: From Gilgamesh to Wells Vol 1
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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