The Road to Science Fiction From Wells to

Now in paperback! Cloth edition previously published in 1979. Volume 2: From Wells to Heinlein, samples the science fiction from a wide variety of authors that paved the way for the Golden Age.

James Gunn is professor emeritus of English at the University of Kansas, Lawrence

Acknowledgments

vii

Introduction

ix

Science: The New Accelerator

1

(15)

The New Accelerator

4

(12)

H. G. Wells

The Literary Dissent

16

(31)

The Machine Stops

19

(28)

E. M. Forster

Islands in the Sky, Or Romance Triumphant

47

(28)

From Under the Moons of Mars

50

(25)

Edgar Rice Burroughs

More Things Under Heaven and Earth

75

(39)

The Moon Pool

78

(36)

A. Merritt

The Call of the Fantastic

114

(24)

The Red One

117

(21)

Jack London

The Horror out of Providence

138

(8)

Dagon

141

(5)

H. P. Lovecraft

The Science - Fiction Magazine Begins Its Amazing Career

146

(22)

The Tissue-Culture King

149

(19)

Julian Huxley

Pedestrian Words, Soaring Concepts

168

(28)

The Revolt of the Pedestrians

171

(25)

David H. Keller

The Philosopher of Time and Space

196

(17)

From Last and First Men

199

(14)

Olaf Stapledon

Ford's in His Flivver

213

(18)

From Brave New World

216

(15)

Aldous Huxley

The Alien from Milwaukee

231

(25)

A Martian Odyssey

234

(22)

Stanley G. Weinbaum

Who Went There?

256

(21)

Twilight

259

(18)

John W. Campbell

The Idea Machine

277

(48)

Proxima Centauri

280

(45)

Murray Leinster

The World - Wrecker on Mars

325

(23)

What's It Like Out There?

328

(20)

Edmond Hamilton

The Legion of Science Fiction

348

(43)

With Folded Hands

351

(40)

Jack Williamson

Mission of Levity

391

(14)

Hyperpilosity

394

(11)

L. Sprague de Camp

The Alchemists Gather

405

(11)

The Faithful

408

(8)

Lester del Rey

The Fairy Tales of Science

416

(30)

Black Destroyer

419

(27)

A. E. Van Vogt

The Stars Appear

446

(34)

Nightfall

449

(31)

Isaac Asimov

The Man Who Sold the Genre

480

(21)

Requiem

484

(17)

Robert A. Heinlein

A Chronology of Science Fiction

501

(10)

About the Editor

511

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The Road to Science Fiction From Wells to Heinlein

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