The Routledge Anthology of Climate Fiction

Bill Gillard, PhD, MFA, is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh where he teaches climate fiction and creative writing. His specialty is speculative fiction from 1880-1940, and he is coauthor of Speculative Modernism: How Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Conceived the Twentieth Century. His poetry and fiction have been published widely, and his current research is on the Wisconsin author, Robert Bloch.

Introduction

Noah and the Flood (1450 B.C.) Genesis 6 - 9

“Darkness” (1816) by Lord Byron

“The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion” (1839) by Edgar Allan Poe

“The End of the World” (1872) by Eugène Mouton

The Doom of the Great City (1880) by William Delisle Hay

“Dialogue Between a Goblin and a Gnome” (1882) by Giacomo Leopardi

After London (1885) (excerpt) by Richard Jefferies

The Purchase of the North Pole (excerpt) (1889) by Jules Verne

“The Star” (1897) by H. G. Wells

“A Corner in Lightning” (1898) by George Griffith

“Within an Ace of the End of the World” (1900-01) by Robert Barr

“The Four White Days” (1903) by Fred M. White

“The Fire” (1904) by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne

Underground Man (excerpt) (1905) by Gabriel de Tarde

The Evacuation of England (excerpt) (1908) by L. P. Gratacap

“The Last Generation: A Story of the Future” (1908) by James Elroy Flecker

The Poison Belt (1913) (excerpt) by Arthur Conan Doyle

Metropolis (excerpt) (1925) by Thea von Harbou

“The Colour out of Space” (1927) by H. P. Lovecraft

“The Menace of Mars” (1928) by Clare Winger Harris

“When the Sun Went Out” (1929) by Leslie F. Stone

“This Mechanical Age” (1931) by Julia Boynton Green

“Planetoid of Doom” (1932) by Morrison Colladay

“The Man Who Awoke” (1933) by Laurence Manning