Title: Future perfect
Description: Hawthorne and Poe: 
Hawthorne. Nathaniel Hawthorne and science fiction ; [The birthmark](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455204W) ; The artist of the beautiful ; [Rappaccini's daughter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455378W) --
Poe. Edgar Allan Poe and science fiction ; A tale of the Ragged Mountains ; [Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W) ; Mellonta Tauta --

Explorations: Automata. Herman Melville and science fiction ; The bell-tower ; Man as machine ; Dr. Materialismus --
Marvelous inventions. The atoms of Chladni --
Medicine men. Was he dead? --
Into the psyche. Thomas Wentworth Higginson and his dreamer ; The monarch of dreams ; Ambrose Bierce and science fiction ; A psychological shipwreck --
Edward Bellamy and science fiction ; To whom this may come --
Space travel. The blindman's world ; Fitz-James O'Brien and science fiction ; The diamond lens ; Dimensional speculation as science fiction ; Four-dimensional space ; Mysterious disappearances ; From "Four-dimensional space" --
Time travel. Beyond the past ; Christmas 200,000 B.C. ; Mark Twain and science fiction ; From the "London Times" of 1904 ; Perfect future ; In the year ten thousand ; The present perfect.
Subjects: short stories, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, Fiction, short story, Mesmerism, suspense, horror, hoaxes, narration, pseudoscience, Hypnagogia, animal magnetism, hypnotism, tuberculosis, gothic fiction, science fiction, 19th century American fiction, American fiction, American Science fiction, History and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, Science fiction, american, American fiction (collections)
Places: Padua, India, Italy, University of Padua
People: Aylmer, Georgiana, Giacomo Rappaccini, Giovanni Guasconti, Beatrice Rappaccini, Ernest Valdemar, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Fitz James O'Brien, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Ambrose Bierce, Edward Bellamy
Time periods: 19th century