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 Introduction
2 - A Dream of Armageddon - Part 1 by H G Wells
3 - A Dream of Armageddon - Part 2 by H G Wells
4 - Doctor Heidegger's Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne
5 - Master Zacharius - Part 1 by Jules Verne
6 - Master Zacharius - Part 2 by Jules Verne
7 - Photography Extraordinary by Lewis Carroll
8 - A Thousand Deaths by Jack London
9 - The Color Out of Space by H P Lovecraft
10 - The Conquest of the Earth by the Moon by Washington Irving
11 - The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley
12 - The Clock That Went Backward by Edward Page Mitchell
13 - Plato's Dream by Voltaire
14 - Caterpillars by E F Benson
15 - Into the Sun by Robert Duncan Milne
16 - The Blue Laboratory by L T Meade
17 - The Crystal Man by Edward Page Mitchell
18 - The Dust of Death by Fred M White
19 - The Artist of the Beautiful by Nathaniel Hawthorne
20 - The Tachypomp by Edward Page Mitchell
21 - What Was It by Fitz James O'Brien
22 - The Park of Kings by Alexander Kuprin
23 - The Eidoloscope by Robert Duncan Milne
24 - The Man Without a Body by Edward Page Mitchell
25 - The Republic of the Southern Cross by Valery Bryusov
26 - The Repairer of Reputations - Part 1 by Robert W Chambers
27 - The Repairer of Reputations - Part 2 by Robert W Chambers
28 - Aepyornis Island by H G Wells
29 - The Unparallelled Invasion by Jack London
30 - The Voice of God by Winifred Holtby
31 - Cool Air by H P Lovecraft
32 - The Flowering of the Strange Orchid by H G Wells
33 - Rappaccini's Daughter - Part 1 by Nathaniel Hawthorne
34 - Rappaccini's Daughter - Part 2 by Nathaniel Hawthorne
