The Road To Science Fiction - Volume 2: From Wells To Heinlein

Volume 2: From Wells To Heinlein

(Signet, 1979; Scarecrow Press, September, 2002)

Contents:

  • "The New Accelerator", by H. G. Wells
  • "The Machine Stops", by E. M. Forster
  • excerpt from The Chessmen of Mars (Signet edition) or Under the Moons of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • "The People of the Pit" (Signet edition) or "The Moon Pool", by A. Merritt
  • "The Red One", by Jack London
  • "Dagon", by H. P. Lovecraft
  • "The Tissue-Culture King", by Julian Huxley
  • "The Revolt of the Pedestrians", by David H. Keller, M.D.
  • excerpt from Last and First Men, by Olaf Stapledon
  • excerpt from Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
  • "A Martian Odyssey", by Stanley G. Weinbaum
  • "Twilight", by John W. Campbell
  • "Proxima Centauri", by Murray Leinster
  • "What's It Like Out There?" by Edmond Hamilton
  • "With Folded Hands", by Jack Williamson
  • "Hyperpilosity", by L. Sprague de Camp
  • "The Faithful", by Lester del Rey
  • "Black Destroyer", by A. E. van Vogt
  • "Nightfall", by Isaac Asimov
  • "Requiem", by Robert A. Heinlein
  • A chronology of Science Fiction

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