| Description |
1 online resource (240 pages) |
| Series |
Dover thrift editions |
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Dover thrift editions.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction: Forgotten Pioneers; When Time Turned; The Painter of Dead Women; The Automaton Ear; Ely's Automatic Housemaid; The Ray of Displacement; Those Fatal Filaments; The Third Drug; A Divided Republic-An Allegory of the Future; Via the Hewitt Ray; The Great Beast of Kafue; Friend Island; The Artificial Man; Creatures of the Light; The Flying Teuton; Acknowledgments and Sources |
| Summary |
Featuring hard-to-find short stories published between 1873 and 1930, this original anthology spotlights a variety of important sci-fi pioneers, including Ethel Watts Mumford, Edith Nesbit, and Clare Winger Harris. Imaginative scenarios include a feminist society in another dimension, the east/west division of the United States with men and women on opposite sides, a man who converts himself into a cyborg, a drug that confers superhuman qualities, and many other curious situations. Editor Mike Ashley provides an informative introduction to the stories. Highlights include When Time Turned (1901), which centers on a grieving widower who contrives to relive his life backwards; The Painter of Dead Women (1910), the tale of a woman in thrall to a Svengali-like character who promises to preserve her beauty forever; The Automaton Ear (1876), in which an inventor struggles to create a machine to detect sounds from the distant past; Ely's Automatic Housemaid (1899), a lighthearted fable concerning a robot housemaid; and ten other captivating tales |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-228) |
| Notes |
Vendor-supplied metadata |
| Subject |
Science fiction -- Women authors.
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Science fiction -- Women authors -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Science fiction -- Women authors -- 19th century
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Science fiction -- 19th century
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Science fiction -- Women authors -- 20th century
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Science fiction -- 20th century
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FICTION -- Science Fiction -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Science Fiction & Fantasy.
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Science fiction
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Science fiction -- Women authors
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| Genre/Form |
short stories.
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Short stories
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Science fiction
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Science fiction.
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Short stories.
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Nouvelles.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ashley, Michael, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780486803401 |
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0486803406 |
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