Scientific Romance (eBook)

British science-fiction author Brian Stableford has published more than 70 novels. He graduated from the University of York with a degree in biology and received a PhD for his his doctoral thesis on the sociology of science fiction. A former lecturer in sociology at the University of Reading, he is a full-time writer and a part-time lecturer on creative writing at several universities.

Introduction by Brian StablefordEdgar Allan Poe The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion (U.S., 1839)S. Henry Berthoud A Heavenward Voyage (France, 1841)Nathaniel Hawthorne The Artist of the Beautiful (U.S., 1844)Fitz-James O’Brien What Was It? (U.S., 1859)Eugène Mouton The End of the World (France, 1872)James Clerk Maxwell A Paradoxical Ode (U.K., 1878)Edward Page Mitchell The Ablest Man in the World (U.S., 1879)Ernest d’HervillyJosuah Electricmann (France, 1882)Grant Allen The Child of the Phalanstery (U.K., 1884)John Davidson The Salvation of Nature (U.K., 1887)J. H. Rosny Tornadres (France, 1887)Charles Epheyre Professor Bakermann’s Microbe (France, 1890)Edgar Fawcett In the Year Ten Thousand (U.S, 1890)Émile Goudeau The Revolt of the Machines (France, 1891)Ambrose Bierce For the Akhoond (U.S., 1892)Frank R. Stockton The Philosophy of Relative Existences (U.S., 1892)Julian Hawthorne June 1993 (U.S., 1893)J. K. Jerome The Dancing Partner (U.K., 1893)Camille Debans The Conqueror of Death (France, 1895)H. G. Wells The Star (U.K., 1897)George Griffith A Corner in Lightning (U.K., 1898)Walter Besant The Memory Cell (U.K., 1900)Jack London The Shadow and the Flash (U.S., 1903)Edmond Haraucourt The Gorilloid (France, 1904)William Hope Hodgson The Voice in the Night" (U.K., 1907)Maurice Renard The Strange Disappearance of Bouvancourt (France, 1909)Arthur Conan Doyle The Horror of the Heights (U.K., 1913) Appendix: A Chronology of the Most Important Longer Works of Scientific Romance Published between 1830 and August 1914