In the Dawn of Science Fiction: 22 Groundbreaking Novels
Foundational Tales of Gothic Creation, Utopian Futures, Time Travel, and Cosmic AdventureBy Mary Shelley, Jonathan Swift, Jules Verne, Mrs. Loudon, John Ames Mitchell, H. G. Wells, John Munro, Robert W. Chambers, Guy Thorne, David Franklin Powell, George Allan England, Garrett Putman Serviss, Edward Bellamy, Edwin Lester Linden Arnold, Homer Eon Flint, Robert Cromie
Length182h 45m
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In the Dawn of Science Fiction: 22 Groundbreaking Novels charts the formative centuries of speculative narrative, gathering Gothic experiment, satirical voyage, technological romance, dystopian prophecy, lost-world adventure, and cosmic fantasy. Its works trace science fiction's emergence from Enlightenment irony and nineteenth-century industrial wonder into a modern literature attentive to invention, empire, social organization, and humanity's place in an expanding universe. Tales of artificial life, future societies, subterranean realms, planetary travel, and catastrophic transformation reveal both the genre's imaginative range and its enduring anxieties. The collection brings together writers associated with British and American literary cultures, from canonical architects of scientific romance to less frequently recovered popular innovators. Their varied careers—spanning journalism, social criticism, adventure fiction, utopian thought, and early popular publishing—illuminate the porous boundaries from which science fiction developed. Across these novels, debates over evolution, mechanization, gender, class, colonial encounter, and scientific authority intersect with the Gothic, the romance, and the political fable. The volume thus situates speculative fiction within the intellectual energies of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Ideal for students, scholars, and adventurous general readers, this anthology offers an unusually rich opportunity to encounter science fiction in its plural beginnings. Reading across its diverse voices clarifies how recurring genre conventions acquired new meanings in different historical and stylistic settings. It is both an educational survey and an invitation to sustained dialogue among foundational imaginative works.
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GenreScience Fiction
Length182 hrs 45 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1SF Ultimate Collection: Space Adventure & Alien Invasion Tales (Annotated)
26Chapter VI.
2In the Dawn of Science Fiction: 22 Groundbreaking Novels
27Chapter VII.
3Gulliver's Travels
28Chapter VIII.
4A Letter from Captain Gulliver to his Cousin Sympson.
29Chapter IX.
5Part I
30Chapter X.
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6Chapter II.
31Chapter XI.
7Chapter III.
32Part IV
8Chapter IV.
33Chapter II.
9Chapter V.
34Chapter III.
10Chapter VI.
35Chapter IV.
11Chapter VII.
36Chapter V.
12Chapter VIII.
37Chapter VI.
13Part II.
38Chapter VII.
14Chapter II.
39Chapter VIII.
15Chapter III.
40Chapter IX.
16Chapter IV.
41Chapter X.
17Chapter V.
42Chapter XI.
18Chapter VI.
43Chapter XII.
19Chapter VII.
44Gulliver of Mars
20Chapter VIII.
45CHAPTER I
21Part III.
46CHAPTER V
22Chapter II.
47CHAPTER VIII
23Chapter III.
48CHAPTER XII
24Chapter IV.
49CHAPTER XVI
25Chapter V.
50CHAPTER XX
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