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**From Mary Shelley to H.G. Wells, a collection of the best Victorian science fiction from Michael Sims, the editor of __Dracula's Guest__.** Long before __1984__, __Star Wars__, or __The Hunger Games__, Victorian authors imagined a future where new science and technologies reshaped the world and universe they knew. The great themes of modern science fiction showed up surprisingly early: space and time travel, dystopian societies, even dangerously independent machines, all inspiring the speculative fiction of the Victorian era. In __Frankenstein Dreams__, Michael Sims has gathered many of the very finest stories, some by classic writers such as Jules Verne, Mary Shelley, and H.G. Wells, but many that will surprise general readers. Dark visions of the human psyche emerge in Thomas Wentworth Higginson's "The Monarch of Dreams," while Mary E. Wilkins Freeman provides a glimpse of "the fifth dimension? in her provocative tale "The Hall...

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Author

Sims, Michael

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9789781632860

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Fiction, Short Stories, Science Fiction