| Title | : | The Foundations of Fiction - Sci-Fi: The stories that created one of the most popular genres of our time |
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| Author | : | H. G. Wells, Jack London, E. F. Benson, Edward Page Mitchell, Fitz James O'Brien, Fred M. White, H. P. Lovecraft, Jules Verne, Lewis Carroll, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Duncan Milne, Robert W. Chambers, Voltaire & Winifred Holtby |
| Release | : | 2022-12-12 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
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| 1 | The Foundations of Fiction - Sci-Fi: The | H. G. Wells, Jack London, E. F. Benson, Edward Page Mitchell, Fitz James O'Brien, Fred M. White, H. P. Lovecraft, Jules Verne, Lewis Carroll, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Duncan Milne, Robert W. Chambers, Voltaire & Winifred Holtby |
| 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 |
