Frankenstein dreams
Subtitle: a connoisseur's collection of Victorian science fiction
By: edited by Michael Sims
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9781632860415
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: English Science fiction; English fiction
Description: Long before 1984, Star Wars, or The Hunger Games, Victorian authors imagined a future where new science and technologies reshaped the world and universe they knew. The great themes of modern science fiction showed up surprisingly early: space and time travel, dystopian societies, even dangerously independent machines, all inspiring the speculative fiction of the Victorian era. In Frankenstein Dreams, Michael Sims has gathered many of the very finest stories, some by classic writers such as Jules Verne, Mary Shelley, and H.G. Wells, but many that will surprise general readers. Dark visions of the human psyche emerge in Thomas Wentworth Higginson's "The Monarch of Dreams," while Mary E. Wilkins Freeman provides a glimpse of "the fifth dimension" in her provocative tale "The Hall Bedroom." With contributions by Edgar Allan Poe, Alice Fuller, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, Arthur Conan Doyle, and many others, each introduced by Michael Sims, whose elegant introduction provides valuable literary and historical context, Frankenstein Dreams is a treasure trove of stories known and rediscovered.--Provided by Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-387).
Table of contents: title: Dreams of forgotten alchemists  -- Mary Shelley; title: Man-bats on the moon  -- Richard Adams Locke; title: The facts in the case of M. Valdemar  -- Edgar Allan Poe; title: A walk on the bottom of the sea  -- Jules Verne; title: The telescopiceEye  -- William Henry Rhodes; title: The automaton ear  -- Florence McLandburgh; title: The monarch of dreams  -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson; title: The senator's saughter  -- Edward Page Mitchell; title: The clock that went backward  -- Edward Page Mitchell; title: Monsters of magnitude  -- Thomas Hardy; title: A horror of the spirit  -- Robert Louis Stevenson; title: A wife manufactured to order  -- Alice W. Fuller; title: Mysterious disappearances  -- Ambrose Bierce; title: Monsters manufactured  -- H. G. Wells; title: The monster of Lake LaMetrie  -- Wardon Allan Curtis; title: The Thames Valley catastrophe  -- Grant Allen; title: Wireless  -- Rudyard Kipling; title: The hall bedroom  -- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; title: The five senses  -- E. Nesbit; title: The horror of the heights -- Arthur Conan Doyle.