ABSTRACT

This set of eight volumes presents the reader with selected primary texts in the genre now generally known as future fiction. The chosen texts are designed to explore the dominant characteristics of the genre and examine how it changed over the 18th and 19th centuries.

part |149 pages

Three Hundred Years Hence

chapter |3 pages

The Phonographer’s Preface

chapter I|12 pages

Statistical Memoranda

chapter II|6 pages

The Era of Development

chapter III|10 pages

Epoch of the Final Wars

chapter IV|8 pages

The Social Revolution

chapter V|8 pages

The Progress of Knowledge

chapter VI|8 pages

The Century of Peace

chapter VII|11 pages

The Triumphs of Science

chapter VIII|15 pages

The Conquest of the Earth

chapter IX|14 pages

The Conquest of the Air

chapter X|18 pages

The Fate of the Inferior Races

chapter XI|22 pages

The Exodus from the Land

chapter XII|18 pages

The Empire of Humanity

part |116 pages

A Crystal Age

chapter |7 pages

I

chapter |8 pages

II

chapter |4 pages

III

chapter |7 pages

IV

chapter |8 pages

V

chapter |5 pages

VI

chapter |4 pages

VII

chapter |4 pages

VIII

chapter |7 pages

IX

chapter |5 pages

X

chapter |7 pages

XI

chapter |6 pages

XII

chapter |7 pages

XIII

chapter |7 pages

XIV

chapter |5 pages

XV

chapter |4 pages

XVI

chapter |8 pages

XVII

chapter |7 pages

XVIII

chapter |8 pages

XIX

chapter |7 pages

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