Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Science Fiction of the 19th Century

By C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Martin H. Greenberg, Edward Page Mitchell, Grant Allen, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Charles G. Waugh, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Isaac Asimov, Robert Duncan Milne, Jack London, Edward Bellamy, J.-H. Rosny, aîné, Frank R. Stockton, E. T. A. Hoffmann

Subjects: Science fiction, English fiction, English Science fiction, American Science fiction

Description: Introduction: The First Century of Science Fiction - essay by Isaac Asimov The Sandman - novelette by E. T. A. Hoffmann (trans. of Der Sandmann 1816) The Mortal Immortal - short story by Mary Shelley A Descent Into the Maelstrom - short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of A Descent Into the Maelström) Rappaccini's Daughter - novelette by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Clock That Went Backwards - short story by Edward Page Mitchell Into the Sun - short story by Robert Duncan Milne A Tale of Negative Gravity - novelette by Frank R. Stockton The Horla, or Modern Ghosts - novelette by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Le Horla 1887) The Shapes - novelette by J. H. Rosny aîné (trans. of Les Xipéhuz) To Whom This May Come - short story by Edward Bellamy The Great Keinplatz Experiment - short story by Arthur Conan Doyle In the Abyss - short story by H. G. Wells The Thames Valley Catastrophe - short story by Grant Allen The Lizard - short story by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne A Thousand Deaths - short story by Jack London