Breaking the Space-Time Continuum: 6 Time-Travel Classics
Six Victorian and Edwardian Visions of Futurity, Utopia, Gothic Dread, and Temporal AdventureBy H. G. Wells, Frederic W. Farrar, Edmond About, Edward Bellamy, William Hope Hodgson, Robert Hugh Benson
Length76h 31m
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Breaking the Space-Time Continuum gathers six formative experiments in imagined temporal displacement, from scientific romance and speculative satire to utopian projection, theological fantasy, and cosmic horror. Its selections chart the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries' fascination with evolution, technological acceleration, national destiny, and the instability of historical knowledge. Visions of remote futures, revived pasts, altered consciousness, and vast abysses of duration demonstrate that time travel was never merely a narrative device: it was a means of testing the moral and political assumptions of modernity. The contributors—H. G. Wells, Frederic W. Farrar, Edmond About, Edward Bellamy, William Hope Hodgson, and Robert Hugh Benson—represent distinct but convergent currents in Victorian and Edwardian literature. Their writings draw upon scientific rationalism, religious debate, imperial and social critique, utopian reform, Gothic sensation, and the emerging conventions of science fiction. Collectively, these voices reveal how speculative literature transformed contemporary anxieties into imaginative encounters with other ages, societies, and scales of existence. This volume is recommended for readers of classic science fiction, Gothic fiction, and intellectual history alike. By placing disparate modes of temporal imagination in dialogue, it offers an instructive survey of the genre's early breadth and continuing power. Readers will find a rich opportunity to compare styles, ideas, and competing visions of humanity's future.
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GenreScience Fiction
Length76 hrs 31 mins
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Publish dateJul 31, 2024
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Table of contents
1Breaking the Space-Time Continuum: 6 Time-Travel Classics
2PREFACE
3BOOK I. — CLOTHO FERT FUSUM
4II. — AGRIPPINA AND NERO
5III. — INSTRUMENTA IMPERII
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6IV. — THE CRIME
7V. — THE MOCKERY OF DEATH
8VI. — THE ACCESSION OF NERO
9VII. — SENECA AND HIS FAMILY
10VIII. — SENECA AND HIS VISITORS
11IX. — NERO AND HIS COMPANIONS
12X. — PRINCE BRITANNICUS.
13XI. — "A FOREIGN SUPERSTITION"
14XII. — ONESIMUS
15XIII. — THE ADVENTURES OF A RUNAWAY
16XIV. — MOTHER AND SON
17XV. — EMPEROR AND AESTHETE
18XVI. — EVENTS IN THE VILLA POLLUX
19XVII. — AMUSEMENTS OF AN EMPEROR
20XVIII. — VESPASIAN'S FARM
21XIX. — OTHO'S SUPPER AND WHAT CAME OF IT
22XX. — BROTHER AND SISTER
23XXI. — AMONG THE CHRISTIANS
24XXII. — BRITANNICUS AND HIS SONG
25XXIII. — PERILS OF BRITANNICUS
26XXIV. — BRITANNICUS UNDERGOES A NEW EXPERIENCE
27XXV. — LOCUSTA
28XXVI. — A BANQUET AND A CONVERSATION
29XXVII. — DEATH IN THE GOBLET
30XXVIII. — THE LAST OF THE CLAUDII
31XXIX. — AGRIPPINA AT BAY
32XXX. — A PRIVATE TRIAL
33XXXI. — THE INTERIOR OF A SLAVE-PRISON
34XXXII. — WANDERINGS OF AN OUTCAST
35XXXIII. — TITUS AND THE VESTAL
36BOOK II. — LACHESIS ROTAT
37XXXV. — THE MATRICIDE
38XXXVI. — SELF-AVENGED
39XXXVII. — VICTOR OVER THE PUBLIC SERVITUDE
40XXXVIII. — THE GLADIATORS' SCHOOL
41XXXIX. — THE FIGHT IN THE ARENA
42XL. — THE SPOLIARIUM
43XLI. — THE KING OF THE GROVE
44XLII. — A MASSACRE OF SLAVES
45XLIII. — A NOTABLE PRISONER
46XLIV. — A SUPPER AT VESPASIAN'S
47XLV. — POPPAEA VICTRIX
48XLVI. — THE DEATH OF OCTAVIA
49XLVII. — A FETTERED AMBASSADOR
50XLVIII. — ENSLAVED AND FREE
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