Future Perfect

Critics, science fiction writers, scientists, and scholars throughout the world hailed the original publication of Future Perfect in 1966 as a book that would transform our evaluation of science fiction and our understanding of American culture. The praise has proved well founded, for Future Perfect has been more responsible than any other single work for the recognition of the value and significance of science fiction.

H. Bruce Franklin is the John Cotton Dana Professor of English and American Studies at Rutgers University in Newark and the author or editor of sixteen books on culture and history, including M.I.A. or Mythmaking In America (paperback, Rutgers University Press). He has been a leading international figure in the teaching and study of science fiction for over three decades.

Introduction	p. 1
Hawthorne and Poe
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Science Fiction	p. 7
The Birthmark	p. 23
The Artist of the Beautiful	p. 39
Rappaccini's Daughter	p. 61
Edgar Allan Poe and Science Fiction	p. 87
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains	p. 96
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar	p. 106
Mellonta Tauta	p. 115
Explorations
Automata	p. 131
Herman Melville and Science Fiction	p. 134
The Bell-Tower	p. 140
Humans as Machines	p. 154
Dr. Materialismus	p. 156
Marvelous Inventions	p. 173
The Atoms of Chladni	p. 175
Medicine Men	p. 202
Jack London and Science Fiction	p. 204
A Thousand Deaths	p. 211
Into the Psyche	p. 220
Thomas Wentworth Higginson and His Dreamer	p. 223
The Monarch of Dreams	p. 226
Ambrose Bierce and Science Fiction	p. 240
A Psychological Shipwreck	p. 242
Space Travel	p. 246
Washington Irving and Science Fiction	p. 249
The Men of the Moon	p. 251
Edward Bellamy and Science Fiction	p. 255
The Blindman's World	p. 261
Fitz-James O'Brien and Science Fiction	p. 277
The Diamond Lens	p. 285
Dimensional Speculation as Science Fiction	p. 307
Four-Dimensional Space	p. 309
From "Four-Dimensional Space"	p. 311
Women's Work	p. 312
From Man's Rights; Or, How Would You Like It?	p. 317
From Mizora: A Prophecy	p. 337
Time Travel	p. 360
Beyond the Past	p. 362
Christmas 200,000 B.C.	p. 365
Mark Twain and Science Fiction	p. 370
From the "London Times" of 1904	p. 376
The Perfect Future	p. 386
In the Year Ten Thousand	p. 389
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