The Road To Science Fiction - Volume 1: From Gilgamesh To Wells

Volume 1: From Gilgamesh To Wells

(Signet, 1979; Scarecrow Press, December 2002)

Contents:

• excerpt from A True Story, by Lucian of Samosata
• excerpt from The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville, Anonymous
• excerpt from Utopia, by Thomas More
• excerpt from The City of the Sun, by Tommaso Campanella
• excerpt from New Atlantis by Francis Bacon
• Somnium, or Lunar Astronomy, by Johannes Kepler
• excerpt from A Voyage to the Moon, by Cyrano de Bergerac
• excerpt from A Voyage to Laputa, by Jonathan Swift
• excerpt from The Journey to the World Underground, by Ludvig Holberg
• "Micromégas", by Voltaire (not included in the Signet edition)
• excerpt from Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
• "Rappaccini's Daughter", by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• "Mellonta Tauta", by Edgar Allan Poe
• "The Diamond Lens", by Fitz-James O'Brien
• excerpt from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne
• excerpt from Around the Moon, by Jules Verne
• excerpt from She, by H. Rider Haggard
• excerpt from Looking Backward, by Edward Bellamy
• "The Damned Thing", by Ambrose Bierce
• "With the Night Mail", by Rudyard Kipling
• "The Star", by H. G. Wells
• A selected bibliography of books about Science Fiction
• A basic Science-Fiction library