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From Gilgamesh to Wells

James Gunn

First published 1977
Publisher Mentor / New American Library
Format Paperback
Type Anthology
Catalog ID ME1578
Pages 404
Price $2.25
ISBN 0451615786

  • "First Mentor printing, September, 1977"
  • First printing by number line, 1—9
  • The artist is not credited, no visible signature [Punchatz?]
  • Catalog #ME1578; full ISBN on spine only
  • LCCN on the copyright page as 77-76965 but this is unknown to the Library of Congress. (The Library of Congress does not own this volume of "The Road to Science Fiction". Their general LCCN for the full set is {{LCCN|78-70642}}, which is for vols 2-4.)

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Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Introduction (The Road to Science Fiction #1) James Gunn Essay
15 The First Voyage to the Moon James Gunn Essay
16 From A True Story Lucian of Samosata Short Fiction
28 Strange Creatures and Far Traveling James Gunn Essay
31 From The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville Anonymous Short Fiction
38 The Good Place That Is No Place James Gunn Essay
41 From Utopia Thomas More Short Fiction
48 The New Science and the Old Religion James Gunn Essay
49 From The City of the Sun Tommaso Campanella Short Fiction
60 Experience, Experiment, and the Battle for Men's Minds James Gunn Essay
61 From The New Atlantis Francis Bacon Short Fiction
84 A New Look at the Heavens and Another Trip to the Moon James Gunn Essay
86 Somnium, or Lunar Astronomy Johannes Kepler Short Story
103 Commuting to the Moon James Gunn Essay
105 From A Voyage to the Moon Cyrano de Bergerac Short Fiction
112 The Age of Reason and the Voice of Dissent James Gunn Essay
115 From "A Voyage to Laputa" Jonathan Swift Short Fiction
151 Imaginary Voyages in the Other Direction James Gunn Essay
154 From The Journey to the World Underground Ludvig Holberg Short Fiction
161 Science and Literature: When Worlds Collide James Gunn Essay
164 From Frankenstein (or, The Modern Prometheus) Mary Shelley Short Fiction
177 Science as Symbol James Gunn Essay
180 Rappaccini's Daughter Nathaniel Hawthorne Novelette
209 Anticipations of the Future James Gunn Essay
212 Mellonta Tauta Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
226 Expanding the Vision James Gunn Essay
228 The Diamond Lens Fitz-James O'Brien Novelette
253 The Indispensable Frenchman James Gunn Essay
256 From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne Short Fiction
270 From Around the Moon Jules Verne Short Fiction
289 Lost Civilizations and Ancient Knowledge James Gunn Essay
292 From She H. Rider Haggard Short Fiction
312 The New Frontier James Gunn Essay
315 From Looking Backward, 2000-1887 Edward Bellamy Short Fiction
345 New Magazines, New Readers, New Writers James Gunn Essay
347 The Damned Thing Ambrose Bierce Short Story
357 A Flying Start James Gunn Essay
359 With the Night Mail Rudyard Kipling Novelette
380 The Father of Modern Science Fiction James Gunn Essay
383 The Star H. G. Wells Short Story
394 A Selected Bibliography of Books About Science Fiction James Gunn Essay
396 A Basic Science-Fiction Library James Gunn Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
From Gilgamesh to Wells Cover 2002 Scarecrow Press Trade Paperback Anthology xviii+349
From Gilgamesh to Wells Cover 2002 Scarecrow Press eBook Anthology