The Road to Science Fiction: From Gilgamesh to Wells Anthology

Stories in This Anthology

Each story in this volume is listed below with its author and available publication details.

The stories in this volume were first published in this anthology.

1. 1

   The New Atlantis

   by Francis Bacon · General Fiction
2. 2

   The Damned Thing

   by Ambrose Bierce · 1893 · General Fiction
3. 3

   The City of the Sun

   by Tommaso Campanella · General Fiction
4. 4

   A Voyage to the Moon

   by Cyrano de Bergerac · General Fiction
5. 5

   Road to Science Fiction 1

   by James Gunn · Sep-1977 · General Fiction
6. 6

   She

   by H. Rider Haggard · 1886 · Action Adventure

   She
7. 7

   Rappaccini's Daughter

   by Nathaniel Hawthorne · Horror
8. 8

   The Journey to the World Underground

   by Ludvig Holberg · General Fiction
9. 9

   Somnium, or Lunar Astronomy

   by Johannes Kepler · General Fiction
10. 10

    With the Right Mail

    by Rudyard Kipling · General Fiction
11. 11

    A True Story

    by Lucian of Samosata · General Fiction
12. 12

    Utopia

    by Thomas More · Christian
13. 13

    The Diamond Lens

    by Fitz-James O'Brien · General Fiction
14. 14

    Mellonta Tauta

    by Edgar Allan Poe · General Fiction
15. 15

    Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus

    by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / Mary Shelley · 1818 · Horror
16. 16

    A Voyage to Laputa

    by Jonathan Swift · General Fiction
17. 17

    20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

    by Jules Verne · Jan-1869 · Steampunk

    Captain Nemo #2
18. 18

    Around the Moon

    by Jules Verne · Jan-1869 · General Fiction

    Baltimore Gun Club #2
19. 19

    The Star

    by H.G. Wells · Jan-1897 · General Fiction