Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• iii • Introduction (Scientific Romance: An International Anthology of Pioneering Science Fiction) • essay by Brian Stableford
• 1 • The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion • (1839) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 9 • A Heavenward Voyage • (1840) • short story by Samuel-Henry Berthoud (trans. of Voyage au Ciel) [as by S. Henry Berthoud]
• 20 • The Artist of the Beautiful • (1844) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 43 • What Was It? • (1859) • short story by Fitz-James O'Brien
• 57 • The End of the World • (2011) • short story by Eugène Mouton (trans. of La fin du monde 1872)
• 66 • A Paradoxical Ode (After Shelley) • (1878) • poem by James Clerk Maxwell
• 69 • The Ablest Man in the World • (1879) • short story by Edward Page Mitchell
• 87 • Josuah Electricmann • (2015) • short story by Ernest d'Hervilly (trans. of Josuah Electricmann 1882)
• 92 • The Child of the Phalanstery • (1881) • novelette by Grant Allen
• 108 • The Salvation of Nature • (1891) • novella by John Davidson (1857 - 1909)
• 123 • Tornadres • (1888) • short story by
  J. H. Rosny aîné^?J. H. Rosny aine
  [as by J.-H. Rosny]
• 138 • Professor Bakermann's Microbe • (1890) • short story by Charles Epheyre (trans. of Le microbe du Professeur Bakermann, récit des temps futurs 1892)
• 156 • In the Year Ten Thousand • (1890) • short story by Edgar Fawcett
• 164 • The Revolt of the Machines • (2014) • short story by Emile Goudeau (trans. of La révolte des machines 1891)
• 172 • For the Ahkoond • (1909) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 180 • The Philosophy of Relative Existences • (1892) • short story by Frank R. Stockton
• 187 • June, 1993 • (1893) • short story by Julian Hawthorne
• 198 • The Dancing Partner • (1928) • short story by Jerome K. Jerome
• 205 • The Conqueror of Death • (2013) • short story by Camille Debans (trans. of Le vainqueur de la mort. Chronique des siècles à venir 1895)
• 220 • The Star • (1897) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 231 • A Corner in Lightning • (1898) • short story by George Griffith
• 243 • The Memory Cell • (1900) • short story by Walter Besant
• 255 • The Shadow and the Flash • (1903) • short story by Jack London
• 269 • The Gorilloid • (2012) • short story by Edmond Haraucourt (trans. of Le Gorilloïde 1906)
• 290 • The Voice in the Night • (1907) • short story by William Hope Hodgson
• 303 • The Singular Fate of Bouvancourt • (2010) • short story by Maurice Renard (trans. of La singulière destinée de Bouvancourt 1909)
• 317 • The Horror of the Heights • (1913) • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]