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FICTION FRA
MARC Display
Frankenstein
dreams
: a
connoisseur
's
collection
of
Victorian
science
fiction
/ edited by Michael Sims.
Bloomsbury, 2017.
Call #:
FICTION
FRA
ISBN:
9781632860415 (trade pbk.)
1632860414 (trade pbk.)
Description:
387 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Dreams
of Forgotten Alchemists / Mary Shelley -- Man-Bats on the Moon / Richard Adams Locke -- The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Edgar Allan Poe -- A Walk on the Bottom of the Sea / Jules Verne -- The Telescopic Eye / William Henry Rhodes -- The Automaton Ear / Florence McLandburgh -- The Monarch of
Dreams
/ Thomas Wentworth Higginson -- The Senator's Daughter / Edward Page Mitchell -- The Clock That Went Backward / Edward Page Mitchell -- Monsters of Magnitude / Thomas Hardy -- A Horror of the Spirit / Robert Louis Stevenson -- A Wife Manufactured to Order / Alice W. Fuller -- Mysterious Disappearances / Ambrose Bierce -- Monsters Manufactured / H.G. Wells -- The Monster of Lake LaMetrie / Wardon Allan Curtis -- The Thames Valley Catastrophe / Grant Allen -- Wireless / Rudyard Kipling -- The Hall Bedroom / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- The Five Senses / E. Nesbit -- The Horror of the Heights / Arthur Conan Doyle.
Summary:
"Long before 1984, Star Wars, or The Hunger Games,
Victorian
authors imagined a future where new
science
and technologies reshaped the world and universe they knew. The great themes of modern
science
fiction
showed up surprisingly early: space and time travel, dystopian societies, even dangerously independent machines, all inspiring the speculative
fiction
of the
Victorian
era. In
Frankenstein
Dreams
, Michael Sims has gathered many of the very finest stories, some by classic writers such as Jules Verne, Mary Shelley, and H.G. Wells, but many that will surprise general readers. Dark visions of the human psyche emerge in Thomas Wentworth Higginson's 'The Monarch of
Dreams
,' while Mary E. Wilkins Freeman provides a glimpse of 'the fifth dimension' in her provocative tale 'The Hall Bedroom.' With contributions by Edgar Allan Poe, Alice Fuller, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, Arthur Conan Doyle, and many others, each introduced by Michael Sims, whose elegant introduction provides valuable literary and historical context,
Frankenstein
Dreams
is a treasure trove of stories known and rediscovered."--From publisher.
Genre:
Science
fiction
.
Historical
fiction
.
Short stories.
Other authors:
Sims, Michael, 1958-
Holds:
2
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