Futures of the Past: An Anthology of Science Fiction Stories from the 19th and Early 20th Centuries, with Critical Essays

ISBN-13: 9781476675046 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 202 str.

Ivy Roberts

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• Table of Contents
• Introduction (Ivy Roberts)—1
• The Future from the Past: Mary Shelley's "Reanimated
• Englishman" (Joanna Harker Shaw)—7
• "Roger Dodsworth: The Reanimated Englishman" (1826/1863)
  by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley—18
• Lady Mesmer Circumnavigates the Scientific Imagination
  in Poe's "The ­Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade" (Beth Atkins)—26
• "The ­Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade" (1845)
  by Edgar Allan Poe—36
• Edward Page Mitchell: Evolution and American Equality (Rob Welch)—50
• "The Senator's Daughter" (1879) by E.P. Mitchell—57
• "Runaway Cyclone," Or: The First Bengali Science Fiction Story (Christin Hoene)—72
• "Runaway Cyclone" (1896/1921) by Jagadish Chandra Bose,
  translated by Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay—76
• Thomas Edison's Hypnotizing Machine: Technology, Science Fiction and "Progress" (Ivy Roberts)—82
• "In the Deep of Time" (1896–7), Synopsis and Chapter VIII (of VIII): "Sea Signaling—The Final Flight" by George (Parsons Lathrop)—92
• The Emotional Birth of AI in "Moxon's Master" (Rob Welch)—100
• "Moxon's Master" (1899), by Ambrose Bierce—108
• The Science Fiction Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs (Jessie F. Terrell, Jr.)—116
• At the Earth's Core (1914), Chapter 1: "Toward the Eternal Fires"
  by Edgar Rice Burroughs—126
• "The Glittering Lady" (Riccardo Gramantieri)—133
• When the World Shook (1919), Chapter 11: "Resurrection"
  by H. Rider Haggard—143
• Future Predictions of Past Technologies: "In 1999"
  and the History of the Future (Ivy Roberts)—154
• "In 1999: Scientific Progress in the Last Century" (1921)
  by B. Franklin Ruth—165
• Scientifiction, Relativism and the Multiverse: Introduction
  to "The Man from the Atom" (Riccardo Gramantieri)—172
• "The Man from the Atom" (1923) by G. Peyton Wertenbaker—180
• About the Contributors—193
• Index—195