Vintage Visions: Essays on Early Science Fiction

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Wesleyan University Press Middletown CT 06459 www.wesleyan.edu/wespress© 2014 SF-TH Inc. All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Designed by Richard Hendel Typeset in Miller and Didot by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Wesleyan University Press is a member of the Green Press Initiative. The paper used in this book meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper. “Future-War Fiction: The First Main Phase, 1871–1900” by I. F. Clarke. Copyright © 1997. Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate and Science-Fiction Studies. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Vintage Visions : Essays on Early Science Fiction / edited by Arthur B. Evans. pages cm. — (Early Classics of Science Fiction) Includes bibliographical references. isBn 978-0-8195-7437-4 (cloth : alk. paper) — isBn 978-0-8195-7438-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) — isBn 978-0-8195-7439-8 (ebook) 1. Science fiction—History and criticism. I. Evans, Arthur B., editor of compilation. Pn3433.5.v56 2014 809.3′8762—dc23 2013045014 5 4 3 2 1 Cover illustration by Alphonse de Neuville (1835-1885) of the interior of the Nautilus, for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, by Jules Verne. ...