Vintage Visions: Essays on Early Science Fiction

1 Cyrano de Bergerac’s Epistemological Bodies: “Pregnant with a Thousand Definitions” (1998, with an afterword by Ishbel Addyman)

Contents Preface vii 1 sylvie romanoWski Cyrano de Bergerac’s Epistemological Bodies: “Pregnant with a Thousand Definitions” (1998, with an afterword by Ishbel Addyman) 1 2 PaUl k. alkon Samuel Madden’s Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1985) 25 3 William B. FisCher German Theories of Science Fiction: Jean Paul, Kurd Lasswitz, and After (1976) 47 4 Josh BernatChez Monstrosity, Suffering, Subjectivity, and Sympathetic Community in Frankenstein and “The Structure of Torture” (2009) 66 5 arthUr B. evans Science Fiction vs. Scientific Fiction in France: From Jules Verne to J.-H. Rosny Aîné (1988) 82 6 i. F. Clarke Future-War Fiction: The First Main Phase, 1871–1900 (1997, with an afterword by Margaret Clarke) 96 7 allison de Fren The Anatomical Gaze in Tomorrow’s Eve (2009) 124 8 andrea Bell Desde Júpiter: Chile’s Earliest Science-Fiction Novel (1995) 163 9 raChel hayWood Ferreira The First Wave: Latin American Science Fiction Discovers Its Roots (2007) 177 10 niCholas rUddiCk “Tell Us All About Little Rosebery”: Topicality and Temporality in H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine (2001) 217 11 kamila kinyon The Phenomenology of Robots: Confrontations with Death in Karel Čapek’s R.U.R. (1999) 240 12 PatriCk a. mCCarthy Zamyatin and the Nightmare of Technology (1984) 267 13 Gary WestFahl “The Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe Type of Story”: Hugo Gernsback’s History of Science Fiction (1992) 278 14 William J. FanninG, Jr. The Historical Death Ray and Science Fiction in the 1920s and 1930s (2010) 298 15 sUsan GUBar C. L. Moore and the Conventions of Women’s Science Fiction (1980, with an afterword by Veronica Hollinger) 325 16 stanislaW lem On Stapledon’s Star Maker (1987, with an afterword by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.) 342 150 Key Works of Early Science Fiction 353 Bibliography of Criticism on Early Science Fiction 357 Contributors 433 ...