The road to science fiction : from Gilgamesh to Wells
1977,
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, [8], 404 pages ;
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2128913
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Publication information: |
New York : New American Library, c1977. |
Language: |
English |
Record ID: |
2128913 |
Variant Title: |
From Gilgamesh to Wells |
Format: |
Regular Print Book |
Physical description: |
[8], 404 pages ; 18 cm. |
Date acquired: |
Not available |
More creator details: |
edited by James Gunn. |
Series statement: |
Road to science fiction |
Series title: |
Road to science fiction. |
Contents note: |
Introduction -- [excerpt from] A true story / Lucian of Samosata -- [excerpt from] The voyages and travels of Sir John Mandeville / Anonymous -- [excerpt from] Utopia / Thomas More -- [excerpt from] The City of the Sun / Tommaso Campanella -- [excerpt from] The New Atlantis / Francis Bacon -- [excerpt from] Somnium, or lunar astronomy / Johannes Kepler -- [excerpt from] A voyage to the Moon / Cyrano de Bergerac -- [excerpt from] A voyage to Laputa / Jonathan Swift -- [excerpt from] The journey to the world underground / Ludvig Holberg -- [excerpt from] Frankenstein / Mary [Wollstonecraft] Shelley -- Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Mellonta Tauta / Edgar Allan Poe -- The diamond lens / Fitz-James O'Brien -- [excerpt from] Twenty thousand leagues under the sea / Jules Verne -- [excerpt from] Around the Moon / Jules Verne -- [excerpt from] She / H. Rider Haggard -- [excerpt from] Looking backward / Edward Bellamy -- The damned thing / Ambrose Bierce -- With the night mail / Rudyard Kipling -- The star / H. G. Wells -- A selected bibliography of books about science fiction -- A basic science fiction library. |
Access restriction: |
FOR USE IN MERRIL COLLECTION ONLY. NOT AVAILABLE FOR INTERLIBRARY LOAN |
Contributor: |
Gunn, James E., 1923-2020 editor.
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