A Victorian Science Fiction Reader : Tales from the Gaslight Zone
Overview
Early science fiction. Will terrorists get their hands on a weapon of mass destruction? Is there life on Mars? Does punishing criminals do any good? If we could travel into the future, what would we see? Is marriage pass ? Will humans be supplanted by machines? Will America collapse? Could solar energy from the Sahara desert become a major power source? Can there be any place for euthanasia in a civilized society? All these questions were raised in the Victorian age and are addressed in this volume. Authors represented: Edwin Abbott Abbott, Grant Allen, John Jacob Astor IV, Edward Bellamy, Samuel Butler, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Frances Power Cobbe, Alexander Craig, Robert Cromie, Kenneth Folingsby, Percy Greg, George Griffith, W. D. Howells, Richard Jefferies, John Uri Lloyd, Richard A. Locke, John Ames Mitchell, William Morris, Fitz-James O'Brien, Edgar Allan Poe, M.P. Shiel, Anthony Trollope, H.G. Wells
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- ISBN-13: 9781477498521
- ISBN-10: 1477498524
- Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publish Date: May 2012
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.99 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.44 pounds
- Page Count: 494
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