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s/t: An Anthology Critics, sf writers, scientists & scholars worldwide hailed the original publication of Future Perfect in '66 as a book to transform evaluation of sf & the understanding of American culture. The praise proved well founded. It's been more responsible than any other work for the recognition of the value of sf. Future Perfect offers a stunning perspective on the relevance of 19th-century sf in the dawn of the 21st century, illustrated by stories by well-known & obscure figures. Introduction/Franklin Nathaniel Hawthorne & Science Fiction 1966 essay/Franklin The Birthmark 1843 story/Nathaniel Hawthorne The Artist of the Beautiful 1844 novelette/Nathaniel Hawthorne Rappaccini's Daughter 1844 novelette/Nathaniel Hawthorne Edgar Allan Poe & Science Fiction 1966 essay/Franklin A Tale of the Ragged Mountains 1844 story/Edgar Allan Poe The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar 1845 story/Edgar Allan Poe Mellonta Tauta 1849 story/Edgar Allan Poe Automata 1966 essay/Franklin Herman Melville & Science Fiction 1966 essay/Franklin The Bell-Tower 1855 story/Herman Melville Humans as Machines essay/Franklin Dr. Materialismus 1890 story/Frederic Jesup Stimson Marvelous Inventions 1966 essay/Franklin The Atoms of Chladni 1860 novelette/J.D. Whelpley Medicine Men 1966 essay/Franklin Jack London & Science Fiction essay/Franklin A Thousand Deaths 1899 story/Jack London Into the Psyche 1966 essay/Franklin Th Wentworth Higginson & his Dreamer 1966 essay/Franklin The Monarch of Dreams 1886 story/Th Wentworth Higginson Ambrose Bierce & Science Fiction 1966 essay/Franklin A Psychological Shipwreck 1879 story/Ambrose Bierce Edward Bellamy & Science Fiction 1966 essay/Franklin To Whom This May Come 1889 story/Edward Bellamy Space Travel 1966 essay/Franklin The Blindman's World 1886 story/Edward Bellamy Washington Irving & Science Fiction essay/Franklin The Men of the Moon 1809 story/Washington Irving Fitz-James O'Brien & Science Fiction 1966 essay/Franklin The Diamond Lens 1858 novelette/Fitz-James O'Brien Dimensional Speculation as Science Fiction 1966 essay/Franklin Four-Dimensional Space 1885 essay/Anonymous Mysterious Disappearances 1893 story/Ambrose Bierce From Four-Dimensional Space 1896 essay/Arthur E. Bostwick Time Travel 1966 essay/Franklin Beyond the Past 1966 essay/Franklin Christmas 200,000 BC 1887 story/Stanley Waterloo Mark Twain & Science Fiction 1966 essay/Franklin From the "London Times" of 1904 1898 story/Mark Twain The Perfect Future 1966 essay/Franklin In the Year Ten Thousand 1892 story/Wm Harben NY & London: Oxford U. Press, '66. 401 pp. 2nd rev. edition, '68. Paper (Galaxy Books, Oxford U. Press), '68. Expanded rev. edition (cloth & paper), Oxford U. Press, '78. Expanded & rev. edition (paper), New Brunswick: Rutgers U. Press, '95. ISBN 00813521521
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Jonathan Cruse
reviewed Future perfect on December 19, 2020
Future perfect
First I want to mention that the definition of science fiction that is operation in this book includes things I would not have thought of, like communicating with the dead and psychic powers. So that was interesting.
Secondly, I'll say that the stories themselves are a mixed bag. Most of them don't totally work for me as stories, and some are barely stories- but some are so over the top that I couldn't help liking them. For example, in one of them, this guy is instructed by a long-dead scientist during a séance to get a big diamond and run electricity through it to make a special microscope, and then- OK, I just clicked on the spoiler button, because I have to tell the rest- he murders his neighbor to get the diamond and then he makes said microscope and then he falls in love with a very small person who lives in a drop of water who he's only able to see through the microscope and then he leaves the drop of water on the microscope so he can keep looking at her but the water evaporates and she dies and he goes crazy. I have to say I was carried away by the strangeness here.
In addition to the one I just described, here are some other images that will stick with me: the mechanized butterfly made by a watchmaker in one of the Hawthorne tales; Melville's doomed bell-ringing automaton; Washington Irving's Martian invasion, with all its parallels to colonizers' real-life invasion of this continent; a woman who goes to Mars in her dreams and finds that male and female roles are totally reversed on that planet; and Mizora, a woman-only society at the center of the earth (strange since I just also read Herland.)
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