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

Read more about this topic:  The Road To Science Fiction

Famous quotes containing the words volume and/or wells:

    “Measured by any standard known to science—by horse-power, calories, volts, mass in any shape,—the tension and vibration and volume and so-called progression of society were full a thousand times greater in 1900 than in 1800;Mthe force had doubled ten times over, and the speed, when measured by electrical standards as in telegraphy, approached infinity, and had annihilated both space and time. No law of material movement applied to it.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    “Here we’ll strip and cool our fire
    In cream below, in milk-baths higher;
    And when all wells are drawn dry,
    I’ll drink a tear out of thine eye.”
    —Richard Lovelace (1618–1658)