A Victorian Science Fiction Reader: Tales from the Gaslight Zone - Brossura

Lester, Graham C

 
9781477498521: A Victorian Science Fiction Reader: Tales from the Gaslight Zone
Brossura
ISBN 10: 1477498524 ISBN 13: 9781477498521
Casa editrice: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Sinossi

Early science fiction. Will terrorists get their hands on a weapon of mass destruction? Is there life on Mars? Does punishing criminals do any good? If we could travel into the future, what would we see? Is marriage passé? Will humans be supplanted by machines? Will America collapse? Could solar energy from the Sahara desert become a major power source? Can there be any place for euthanasia in a civilized society? All these questions were raised in the Victorian age and are addressed in this volume. Authors represented: Edwin Abbott Abbott, Grant Allen, John Jacob Astor IV, Edward Bellamy, Samuel Butler, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Frances Power Cobbe, Alexander Craig, Robert Cromie, Kenneth Folingsby, Percy Greg, George Griffith, W. D. Howells, Richard Jefferies, John Uri Lloyd, Richard A. Locke, John Ames Mitchell, William Morris, Fitz-James O'Brien, Edgar Allan Poe, M.P. Shiel, Anthony Trollope, H.G. Wells

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Editore
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Data di pubblicazione
2012
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1477498524
ISBN 13 
9781477498521
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
494
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