The Birth of Science Fiction: The future, imagined first

Where the genre began — Mary Shelley’s creation, Verne’s machines, and the worlds, wars, and time travel of H. G. Wells.

In this collection

• The Prince and the Pauper, Part 5
• Queen of Hearts
• The Haunter of the Ring
• The Star
• Pan Learns Music
• Stolen Centuries
• The Story of a Story
• Gods of the North
• Old Hildebrand
• The Weather on Mercury
• The Dogs and the Fox
• Truth and the Traveller
• The Wolf and the Goat
• Fairy Tale
• The Choice
• The Marsh Hawk. a Marsh Hawk's Nest, a Young Hawk, and a Visit to a Quail on her Nest
• The Caliph and the Gardener
• The Old Huntsman
• The Bride
• Dwellers in the Mirage
• The Beech Tree
• The Bad Fairy
• The "Land of Boobies"
• The Spider's Thread
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