Table of Contents

• Contributors
• Note
• Preface – David Seed
• ‘Able Mechanick’: The Life and the Adventures of Peter Wilkins and the Eighteenth-Century Fantastic Voyage – Paul Baines
• Science Fiction by Gaslight: An Introduction to English-Language Science Fiction in the Nineteenth Century – Edward James
• Frankenstein and the Origins of Science Fiction – Brian Stableford
• From Mary Shelley to The War of the Worlds: The Thames Valley Catastrophe – Patrick Parrinder
• Breaking the Bounds: The Rhetoric of Limits in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe, his Contemporaries and Adaptors – David Seed
• Verne’s Amazing Journeys – M. Hammerton
• Imagining the Future: predictive Fiction in the Nineteenth Century – Brian Nellist
• Imagination and Inversion in Nineteenth-Century Utopian Writing – Simon Dentith
• Prediction, programme and Fantasy in Jack London’s The Iron Heel – Tony Barley
• Alien Dreams: Kipling – Stephen R. L. Clark
• Lesbians and Virgins: The New Motherhood in Herland – Val Gough
• Index

About the Author

David Seed is Professor of English at the University of Liverpool.

Reviews

... one of the finest studies of early SF I've seen in recent years.