Origins of Science Fiction

This anthology gathers together seventeen gripping tales from the nineteenth and early twentieth century that make up the foundations of science fiction.

About the author

Michael Newton is the author of avage Girls and Wild Boys: A History of Feral Children (2002) and Age of Assassins: A History of Conspiracy and Political Violence, 1865-1981 (2012). On the subject of cinema, he has written Show People: A History of the Film Star (2019) and books on Kind Hearts and Coronets (2003) and Rosemary's Baby (2020) for the BFI Film Classics series. He has edited Edmund Gosse's Father and Son and Victorian Fairy Tales for Oxford World's Classics, and Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent and The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories for Penguin Classics, and co-edited the anthology, Literature and Science, 1660-1834: Science as Polite Culture (2002). He teaches literature and film at Leiden University.

Summary

This anthology gathers together seventeen gripping tales from the nineteenth and early twentieth century that make up the foundations of science fiction.

Additional text

These are some of my initial impressions on this useful collection...It is a great mystery just what captivates readers in a story and these ghostwriters have certainly achieved the pinnacle of this craft.

Product details

• Authors: Dr Michael (Leiden University Newton, Michael Newton
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.09.2023
• EAN: 9780198891949
• ISBN: 978-0-19-889194-9
• No. of pages: 464
• Series: Oxford World's Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Science Fiction, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Short Stories, FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors), FICTION / Science Fiction / General, FICTION / Ghost, FICTION / Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Anthologies: general, Classic horror & ghost stories, Classic science fiction, Anthologies (non-poetry), Classic horror and ghost stories, Classic fiction: general and literary