The Foundations of Fiction - Sci-Fi

To know the future is perhaps the most fabled of wishes. In this volume we present a roll-call of classic authors including H P Lovecraft, H G Wells, Mary Shelley, Lewis Carroll, Jack London and many others who short story by short story establish much of what today is science fact. From space travel, the Internet, robots and cyborgs to voice control, organ transplants, mobile phones, these are just a few of the amazing and bewildering predictions that together bring a unique yet intricate account of the beginnings of this most prescient of genres.1 - The Foundations of Fiction - Sci-Fi - An Introduction2 - A Dream of Armageddon - Part 1 by H G Wells3 - A Dream of Armageddon - Part 2 by H G Wells4 - Doctor Heidegger's Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne5 - Master Zacharius - Part 1 by Jules Verne6 - Master Zacharius - Part 2 by Jules Verne7 - Photography Extraordinary by Lewis Carroll8 - A Thousand Deaths by Jack London9 - The Color Out of Space by H P Lovecraft10 - The Conquest of the Earth by the Moon by Washington Irving11 - The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley12 - The Clock That Went Backward by Edward Page Mitchell13 - Plato's Dream by Voltaire14 - Caterpillars by E F Benson15 - Into the Sun by Robert Duncan Milne16 - The Blue Laboratory by L T Meade17 - The Crystal Man by Edward Page Mitchell18 - The Dust of Death by Fred M White19 - The Artist of the Beautiful by Nathaniel Hawthorne20 - The Tachypomp by Edward Page Mitchell21 - What Was It by Fitz James O'Brien22 - The Park of Kings by Alexander Kuprin23 - The Eidoloscope by Robert Duncan Milne24 - The Man Without a Body by Edward Page Mitchell25 - The Republic of the Southern Cross by Valery Bryusov26 - The Repairer of Reputations - Part 1 by Robert W Chambers27 - The Repairer of Reputations - Part 2 by Robert W Chambers28 - Aepyornis Island by H G Wells29 - The Unparallelled Invasion by Jack London30 - The Voice of God by Winifred Holtby31 - Cool Air by H P Lovecraft32 - The Flowering of the Strange Orchid by H G Wells33 - Rappaccini's Daughter - Part 1 by Nathaniel Hawthorne34 - Rappaccini's Daughter - Part 2 by Nathaniel Hawthorne