{"product_id":"book-2qjf","title":"Proto Sci Fi","description":"The earliest, most visionary examples of the genre in a two-thousand-year compendium of speculative fiction that begins when the height of technology was Roman concrete and the watermill, and ends on the cusp of the pulp era.\u003cbr\u003eAn essential collection of 30 stories for the true sci fi enthusiast, including:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlutarch, 100CE: The Face In The Moon\u003cbr\u003eLucian of Samosata: His True History, 182 CE; Icaromenippus, An Aerial Expedition, 165 CE\u003cbr\u003eIwaya Sazanami: The Bamboo-Cutter and the Moon-Child, 900CE\u003cbr\u003eJohannes Kepler: Somnium, 1609\u003cbr\u003eFrancis Bacon: The New Atlantis, 1627\u003cbr\u003eFrancis Godwin:The Man in the Moone 1638\u003cbr\u003eCyrano De Bergerac: A Voyage To The Moon 1649\u003cbr\u003eMargaret Cavendish, The Blazing World 1666\u003cbr\u003eLudvig Holberg: Niels Klim's Journey Under The Ground, 1741\u003cbr\u003eVoltaire: Micromegas, 1752; Plato's Dream, 1756\u003cbr\u003eMary Wollstonecraft Shelley: The Mortal Immortal, 1833\u003cbr\u003eNathaniel Hawthorne: The Birthmark 1846; Rappaccini's Daughter, 1846\u003cbr\u003eEdgar Allen Poe: The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfall, 1835; Mesmeric Revelation 445, 1849; Mellonta Tauta 1849; The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar 1845; The Conversation Of Eiros \u0026amp; Charmion \u003cbr\u003eFitz-James O'Brien: The Diamond Lens 1858; What Was It? A Mystery 1859\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Eliot: The Lifted Veil 1859\u003cbr\u003eAmbrose Bierce: Moxon's Master, 1893\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Chetwynd Griffith: A Corner In Lightning, 1896; A Genius for A Year, 1898\u003cbr\u003eJack London A Relic Of The Pliocene, 1901\u003cbr\u003eHP Lovecraft The Colour Out Of Space, 1927\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlso look out for our related early SF novels:\u003cbr\u003e- The Brick Moon (1869), the first tale of an artificial satellite\/space station\u003cbr\u003e- The Flying Inn (1914), Chesterton's alternate history of an England overtaken by Progressive Islam where alcohol is banned\u003cbr\u003e- We (1920) The book that inspired 1984 and Brave New World (Yevgeny Zamyatin)\u003cbr\u003e- The Star\/In The Year 2889, a double feature of HG Wells and Jules Verne's rarer SF tales\u003cbr\u003e- Nathaniel Hawthorne's Sci Fi, with extra tales from the American master","brand":"Author's Republic","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":67943782023472,"sku":"BD2qjf","price":59.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/2qjf-Square-cover.webp?v=1791220256","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-2qjf","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}