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
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