A Victorian Science Fiction Reader

My new collection is called A Victorian Science Fiction Reader: Tales from the Gaslight Zone.

It is available here. Here are the contents:

THE UNPARALLELED ADVENTURE OF ONE HANS PFAALL, by Edgar Allan Poe, 1835

THE GREAT MOON HOAX, probably by Richard A. Locke, 1835

THE DIAMOND LENS, by Fitz-James O'Brien, 1858

DARWIN AMONG THE MACHINES, by Cellarius (Samuel Butler), 1863

THE COMING RACE (extract), by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1871

EREWHON (extract), by Samuel Butler, 1872

THE AGE OF SCIENCE, by Merlin Nostradamus(Frances Power Cobbe), 1877

ACROSS THE ZODIAC, by Percy Greg, 1880 (extract)

THE FIXED PERIOD (Introduction), by Anthony Trollope, 1882

FLATLAND: A ROMANCE OF MANY DIMENSIONS (Part One), by Edwin Abbott Abbott, 1884

AFTER LONDON OR WILD ENGLAND (extract), by Richard Jefferies, 1885

MEDA (extract from Part One), by Kenneth Folingsby, 1888

LOOKING BACKWARD(2000-1887) (extract), by Edward Bellamy, 1888

From THE LAST AMERICAN (extract), by John Ames Mitchell, 1889

NEWS FROM NOWHERE OR AN EPOCH OF REST (extract), by William Morris, 1890

THE ANGEL OF THE REVOLUTION, A TALE OF THE COMING TERROR (extract), by George Griffith, 1893

A JOURNEY IN OTHER WORLDS (extract), by John Jacob Astor IV, 1894

THE BRITISH BARBARIANS (extract), by Grant Allen, 1895

THE CRACK OF DOOM (extract), by Robert Cromie, 1895

A TRAVELER FROM ALTRURIA: ROMANCE (extract), by W. D. Howells, 1893

ETIDORHPA OR THE END OF EARTH (extract), by John Uri Lloyd, 1895

IONIA: LAND OF WISE MEN AND FAIR WOMEN (extract), by Alexander Craig, 1898

ANTICIPATIONS OF THE REACTION OF MECHANICAL AND SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS UPON HUMAN LIFE AND THOUGHT (Extract), by H.G. Wells, 1901

THE PURPLE CLOUD (extract), by M.P. Shiel, 1901