In Search of the Great Unknown: 20 Science-Fiction Adventures
Victorian and Edwardian Voyages to Lost Worlds, Hidden Civilizations, and Cosmic PerilBy Edwin Lester Linden Arnold, Jules Verne, John Ames Mitchell, John Munro, Robert W. Chambers, Guy Thorne, David Franklin Powell, George Allan England, Garrett Putman Serviss, Mrs. Loudon, Charles B. Stilson, Charles Willing Beale, Luis Senarens, George Chetwynd Griffith, William Le Queux, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Romyn Dake
Length184h 49m
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In Search of the Great Unknown: 20 Science-Fiction Adventures surveys the formative energies of speculative fiction, assembling voyages beyond Earth, technological marvels, occult-inflected mysteries, lost-world romances, and encounters with altered futures. Its range extends from Gothic atmosphere and sensational adventure to proto-scientific extrapolation, imperial romance, and planetary imagination. Standout modes include lunar and interplanetary travel, catastrophic invention, and explorations of hidden civilizations, revealing how early science fiction transformed contemporary discoveries and anxieties into narratives of wonder. The contributors—among them internationally influential pioneers, popular adventure writers, journalists, and experimenters in fantastic fiction—represent the heterogeneous literary culture from which modern science fiction emerged. Their works belong to the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century convergence of scientific popularization, colonial-era exploration narratives, utopian speculation, and Gothic revivalism. Read together, these voices illuminate the genre's development across national traditions and publishing forms, while demonstrating that the "unknown" could serve as a site for debating progress, power, fear, and human possibility. This volume is especially rewarding for readers seeking both pleasure and historical perspective. It offers an accessible course in science fiction's prehistory, inviting comparison among distinct styles, ambitions, and imaginative geographies. Students, scholars, and adventurous general readers alike will find a rich dialogue between its tales, as each enlarges the others' vision of what speculative literature could dare to imagine.
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GenreScience Fiction
Length184 hrs 49 mins
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Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Uncanny Stories (Annotated)
2In Search of the Great Unknown: 20 Science-Fiction Adventures
3Gulliver of Mars
4CHAPTER I
5CHAPTER V
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6CHAPTER VIII
7CHAPTER XII
8CHAPTER XVI
9CHAPTER XX
10From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon
11From The Earth To The Moon
12CHAPTER XII. (pt. 1)
13CHAPTER XII. (pt. 2)
14CHAPTER XXIII.
15INTRODUCTION.
16CHAPTER I.
17CHAPTER II.
18CHAPTER III.
19CHAPTER IV.
20CHAPTER V.
21CHAPTER VI.
22CHAPTER VII.
23CHAPTER VIII.
24CHAPTER IX.
25CHAPTER X.
26CHAPTER XI.
27CHAPTER XII.
28CHAPTER XIII.
29CHAPTER XXII.
30A Journey to the Center of the Earth & The Mysterious Island
31A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
32CHAPTER I. THE PROFESSOR AND HIS FAMILY
33CHAPTER II. A MYSTERY TO BE SOLVED AT ANY PRICE
34CHAPTER III. THE RUNIC WRITING EXERCISES THE PROFESSOR
35CHAPTER IV. THE ENEMY TO BE STARVED INTO SUBMISSION
36CHAPTER V. FAMINE, THEN VICTORY, FOLLOWED BY DISMAY
37CHAPTER VI. EXCITING DISCUSSIONS ABOUT AN UNPARALLELED ENTERPRISE
38CHAPTER VII. A WOMAN’S COURAGE
39CHAPTER VIII. SERIOUS PREPARATIONS FOR VERTICAL DESCENT
40CHAPTER IX. ICELAND! BUT WHAT NEXT?
41CHAPTER X. INTERESTING CONVERSATIONS WITH ICELANDIC SAVANTS
42CHAPTER XI. A GUIDE FOUND TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH
43CHAPTER XII. A BARREN LAND
44CHAPTER XIII. HOSPITALITY UNDER THE ARCTIC CIRCLE
45CHAPTER XIV. BUT ARCTICS CAN BE INHOSPITABLE, TOO
46CHAPTER XV. SNÆFELL AT LAST
47CHAPTER XVI. BOLDLY DOWN THE CRATER
48CHAPTER XVII. VERTICAL DESCENT
49CHAPTER XVIII. THE WONDERS OF TERRESTRIAL DEPTHS
50CHAPTER XIX. GEOLOGICAL STUDIES IN SITU
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