The Road to Science Fiction From Gilgamesh to

Now in Paper! The Road to Science Fiction is a six-volume anthology of science fiction that covers the development of science fiction from its earliest prototypes in the Sumerian Gilgamesh and the Greek epics to approximately 1990. Created originally to provide anthologies for use in classes, these volumes have become mass-market sellers as well, since they are not only a source of outstanding stories but also explain what constitutes science fiction, how it developed and the contribution the authors and the stories have made to the evolution of science fiction. Cloth edition previously published in 1979.

Introduction	p. vii
The First Voyage to the Moon	p. 1
From A True Story	p. 3
Strange Creatures and Far Traveling	p. 13
From The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville	p. 16
The Good Place That Is No Place	p. 22
From Utopia	p. 25
The New Science and the Old Religion	p. 31
From The City of the Sun	p. 33
Experience, Experiment, and the Battle for Men's Minds	p. 42
From The New Atlantis	p. 44
A New Look at the Heavens and Another Trip to the Moon	p. 63
Somnium, or Lunar Astronomy	p. 65
Commuting to the Moon	p. 79
From A Voyage to the Moon	p. 81
The Age of Reason and the Voice of Dissent	p. 87
From "A Voyage to Laputa"	p. 90
Imaginary Voyages in the Other Direction	p. 119
From The Journey to the World Underground	p. 122
Vistors from Space	p. 128
From Micromegas	p. 130
Science and Literature: When Worlds Collide	p. 146
From Frankenstein	p. 149
Science as Symbol	p. 159
Rappaccini's Daughter	p. 162
Anticipations of the Future	p. 186
Mellonta Tauta	p. 189
Expanding the Vision	p. 201
The Diamond Lens	p. 203
The Indispensable Frenchman	p. 224
From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea	p. 227
From Around the Moon	p. 245
Lost Civilizations and Ancient Knowledge	p. 256
From She	p. 259
The New Frontier	p. 276
From Looking Backward	p. 279
New Magazines, New Readers, New Writers	p. 304
The Damned Thing	p. 307
A Flying Start	p. 315
With the Night Mail	p. 318
The Father of Modern Science Fiction	p. 336
The Star	p. 339
About the Editor	p. 349
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