Tales of Time Warps: 20 Sci-Fi Classics
Victorian and Edwardian Visions of Utopias, Dystopias, Temporal Horror, and Scientific RomanceBy Abraham Merritt, Edward Bellamy, H. G. Wells, William Hope Hodgson, Mark Twain, Frederic W. Farrar, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett, Edmond About, Henry Holt, Robert Hugh Benson, Edith Nesbit, Edwin Lester Arnold, Jane C. Loudon, William Henry Hudson, Gertrude Barrows Bennett, Francis Stevens, William Morris
Length220h 54m
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Tales of Time Warps: 20 Sci-Fi Classics maps the formative imagination of speculative fiction through temporal displacement, lost worlds, prophetic futures, and encounters with altered histories. Its twenty selections range from satirical fantasy and scientific romance to Gothic adventure, social prophecy, and metaphysical horror, revealing that "time travel" has long served as a means of testing political institutions, technological ambition, and human identity. Voyages into remote futures and prehistoric realms stand beside unsettling visions of recurrence, evolution, and civilizational decline. The contributors collectively represent a crucial Anglo-American and European tradition extending from Victorian literary culture into the early twentieth century. Journalists, reformers, theologians, fantasists, children's writers, and major architects of scientific romance bring markedly different intellectual commitments to temporal speculation. Their work intersects with debates over industrial modernity, empire, socialism, gender, evolutionary science, spiritual doubt, and the limits of rational progress. Read together, these voices demonstrate how early science fiction emerged not as a single genre formula but as a flexible literary response to modernity's disruptions. This volume is especially valuable for readers seeking both pleasure and historical perspective. It offers a compact education in the diverse roots of speculative literature while inviting comparison among competing visions of past, present, and future. Students, scholars, and general readers alike will find in its varied modes a lively dialogue about change, memory, and the enduring consequences of imagining time otherwise.
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GenreScience Fiction
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Publish dateAug 1, 2024
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Table of contents
1Across the Zodiac (Annotated)
2The Time Machine
3CHAPTER I
4CHAPTER II
5CHAPTER III
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6CHAPTER IV
7CHAPTER V
8CHAPTER VI
9CHAPTER VII
10CHAPTER VIII
11CHAPTER IX
12CHAPTER X
13CHAPTER XI
14CHAPTER XII
15When The Sleeper Wakes
16CHAPTER I. INSOMNIA
17CHAPTER II THE TRANCE
18CHAPTER III THE AWAKENING
19CHAPTER IV THE SOUND OF A TUMULT
20CHAPTER V THE MOVING WAYS
21CHAPTER VI THE HALL OF THE ATLAS
22CHAPTER VII IN THE SILENT ROOMS
23CHAPTER VIII THE ROOF SPACES
24CHAPTER IX THE PEOPLE MARCH
25CHAPTER X THE BATTLE OF THE DARKNESS
26CHAPTER XI THE OLD MAN WHO KNEW EVERYTHING
27CHAPTER XII OSTROG
28CHAPTER XIII THE END OF THE OLD ORDER
29CHAPTER XIV FROM THE CROW’S NEST
30CHAPTER XV PROMINENT PEOPLE
31CHAPTER XVI THE MONOPLANE
32CHAPTER XVII THREE DAYS
33CHAPTER XVIII GRAHAM REMEMBERS
34CHAPTER XIX OSTROG’S POINT OF VIEW
35CHAPTER XX IN THE CITY WAYS
36CHAPTER XXI THE UNDERSIDE
37CHAPTER XXII THE STRUGGLE IN THE COUNCIL HOUSE
38CHAPTER XXIII GRAHAM SPEAKS HIS WORD
39CHAPTER XXIV WHILE THE AEROPLANES WERE COMING
40CHAPTER XXV THE COMING OF THE AEROPLANES
41Looking Backward & Equality
42Looking Backward: 2000–1887 (pt. 1)
43Looking Backward: 2000–1887 (pt. 2)
44Looking Backward: 2000–1887 (pt. 3)
45Looking Backward: 2000–1887 (pt. 4)
46Equality (pt. 1)
47Equality (pt. 2)
48Equality (pt. 3)
49Equality (pt. 4)
50Equality (pt. 5)
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