Proto Sci Fi

The earliest, most visionary examples of the genre in a two-thousand-year compendium of speculative fiction that begins when the height of technology was Roman concrete and the watermill, and ends on the cusp of the pulp era. An essential collection of 30 stories for the true sci fi enthusiast, including: Plutarch, 100CE: The Face In The Moon Lucian of Samosata: His True History, 182 CE; Icaromenippus, An Aerial Expedition, 165 CE Iwaya Sazanami: The Bamboo-Cutter and the Moon-Child, 900CE Johannes Kepler: Somnium, 1609 Francis Bacon: The New Atlantis, 1627 Francis Godwin:The Man in the Moone 1638 Cyrano De Bergerac: A Voyage To The Moon 1649 Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World 1666 Ludvig Holberg: Niels Klim's Journey Under The Ground, 1741 Voltaire: Micromegas, 1752; Plato’s Dream, 1756 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: The Mortal Immortal, 1833 Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Birthmark 1846; Rappaccini’s Daughter, 1846 Edgar Allen Poe: The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfall, 1835; Mesmeric Revelation 445, 1849; Mellonta Tauta 1849; The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar 1845; The Conversation Of Eiros & Charmion Fitz-James O'Brien: The Diamond Lens 1858; What Was It? A Mystery 1859 George Eliot: The Lifted Veil 1859 Ambrose Bierce: Moxon’s Master, 1893 George Chetwynd Griffith: A Corner In Lightning, 1896; A Genius for A Year, 1898 Jack London A Relic Of The Pliocene, 1901 HP Lovecraft The Colour Out Of Space, 1927 Also look out for our related early SF novels: - The Brick Moon (1869), the first tale of an artificial satellite/space station - The Flying Inn (1914), Chesterton's alternate history of an England overtaken by Progressive Islam where alcohol is banned - We (1920) The book that inspired 1984 and Brave New World (Yevgeny Zamyatin) - The Star/In The Year 2889, a double feature of HG Wells and Jules Verne's rarer SF tales - Nathaniel Hawthorne's Sci Fi, with extra tales from the American master