Future Perfect: American Science Fiction of the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology

Winner of the 2008 American Studies Association's Carl Bode—Norman Holmes Pearson Prize "for lifetime of achievement and service"

This selection of unusual storeis by important American writers—Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Bellamy and Twain—and by less well—known tellers such as Ambrose Bierce, S. Weir Mitchell and Fitz—James O'Brien, challenges the commonly held belief that science fiction is a twenthiethcentury phenomenon, or that it began with Jule Verne and H,. G. Wells. Here are tales of ...