Authors: H. Bruce Franklin
ISBN-13: 9780813521527, ISBN-10: 0813521521
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Date Published: January 1995
Edition: 1st Edition
In this first new edition since 1978, H. Bruce Franklin has made major revisions and additions, including a new section displaying remarkable contributions to science fiction by nineteenth-century American women. Future Perfect now offers a stunning perspective on the relevance of nineteenth-century science fiction in the dawn of the twenty-first century, illustrated by wonderfully enjoyable stories by obscure figures and by well-known authors.
Introduction | 1 | |
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Science Fiction | 7 | |
The Birthmark | 23 | |
The Artist of the Beautiful | 39 | |
Rappaccini's Daughter | 61 | |
Edgar Allan Poe and Science Fiction | 87 | |
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains | 96 | |
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar | 106 | |
Mellonta Tauta | 115 | |
Automata | 131 | |
Herman Melville and Science Fiction | 134 | |
The Bell-Tower | 140 | |
Humans as Machines | 154 | |
Dr. Materialismus | 156 | |
Marvelous Inventions | 173 | |
The Atoms of Chladni | 175 | |
Medicine Men | 202 | |
Jack London and Science Fiction | 204 | |
A Thousand Deaths | 211 | |
Into the Psyche | 220 | |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson and His Dreamer | 223 | |
The Monarch of Dreams | 226 | |
Ambrose Bierce and Science Fiction | 240 | |
A Psychological Shipwreck | 242 | |
Space Travel | 246 | |
Washington Irving and Science Fiction | 249 | |
The Men of the Moon | 251 | |
Edward Bellamy and Science Fiction | 255 | |
The Blindman's World | 261 | |
Fitz-James O'Brien and Science Fiction | 277 | |
The Diamond Lens | 285 | |
Dimensional Speculation as Science Fiction | 307 | |
Four-Dimensional Space | 309 | |
From "Four-Dimensional Space" | 311 | |
Women's Work | 312 | |
From Man's Rights; Or, How Would You Like It? | 317 | |
From Mizora: A Prophecy | 337 | |
Time Travel | 360 | |
Beyond the Past | 362 | |
Christmas 200,000 B.C. | 365 | |
Mark Twain and Science Fiction | 370 | |
From the "London Times" of 1904 | 376 | |
The Perfect Future | 386 | |
In the Year Ten Thousand | 389 |