Future Perfect: American Science Fiction of the Nineteenth Century
Subtitle: An Anthology
Edition: Rev Exp Su edition
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: January 19, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780813521527
Subjects: Modern fiction; Novels, other prose & writers; Science Fiction And Fantasy; 19th Century American Novel And Short Story; Fiction - Science Fiction; Fiction; Science fiction, American; Science Fiction - Anthologies; Literature; American fiction; 19th century
First sentence: All fiction presumably seeks to represent some part of "reality," which includes the past, all possible futures, and the dreams and nightmares of the present, that is, everything conceivable.