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The Routledge Anthology of Global Science Fiction Origins brings together short stories from writers of science fiction from all over the world who were at the vanguard of the genre from 1872-1942.
List of contents
Introduction, 1. "The Diamond Lens" (1858) by Fitz-James O'Brien (Ireland), 2. "Captain Mendonça" (1870) by Machado de Assis (Brazil), 3.
Anno Domini 2000, or, Woman's Destiny (excerpt) (1889) by Julius Vogel (New Zealand), 4.
A Million Years After (excerpt) (1889) by J. Dragutin Ili¿ (Serbia), 5. "The Strange Death of Friar Pedro" (1898, revised 1913) by Rubén Darío (Nicaragua), 6.
The Purple Cloud (excerpt) (1901) by M.P. Shiel (Montserrat), 7. "Vertigo" (1901) by Adela Zamudio (Bolivia), 8. "The Curious Experience of Thomas Dunbar" (1904) by Gertrude Barrows Bennett (United States), 9. "New Tales of Mr. Braggadocio" (1905) by Xu Nianci (China), 10. "Sultana's Dream" (1905) by Begum Rokeya (Bengal), 11.
The Anglo-American Alliance (excerpt) (1906) by Gregory Casparian (Türkiye), 12. "Yzur" (1906) by Leopoldo Lugones (Argentina), 13.
Singnagtugaq (excerpt) (1914) by Mathias Storch (Greenland), 14. "In the Penal Colony" (1919) by Franz Kafka (Austria-Hungary), 15. "The Tale of Ak and Humanity" (1919) by Yefim Zozulya (Russia), 16.
R.U.R. (excerpt) (1920) by Karel ¿apek (Czechoslovakia), 17. "Frozen Bodies" (1921) by Amado Nervo (Mexico), 18. "Cataclysm" (1924) by Massimo Bontempelli (Italy), 19. "The Surrounding Reality" (1927) by Julio Garmendia (Venezuela), 20. "The Machine Man of Ardathia" (1927) by Francis Flagg (Canada), 21.
Sons of the Clouds (excerpt) (1931) by August van Oordt (South Africa), 22.
Vandals of the Void (excerpt) (1931) by James Morgan Walsh (Australia), 23. "Four-Dimensional Man" (1935) by Juza Unno (Japan), 24. "Angels' Prayer" (1941) by Tawfiq al-Hakim (Egypt
About the author
Bill Gillard is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, USA. His publications include The Routledge Anthology of Climate Fiction (2025) and Speculative Modernism: How Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Conceived the Twentieth Century (2021).
