The Road to science fiction Book

	Introduction	vii
	The First Voyage to the Moon	1
	From A True Story	3
	Strange Creatures and Far Traveling	13
	From The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville	16
	The Good Place That Is No Place	22
	From Utopia	25
	The New Science and the Old Religion	31
	From The City of the Sun	33
	Experience, Experiment, and the Battle for Men's Minds	42
	From The New Atlantis	44
	A New Look at the Heavens and Another Trip to the Moon	63
	Somnium, or Lunar Astronomy	65
	Commuting to the Moon	79
	From A Voyage to the Moon	81
	The Age of Reason and the Voice of Dissent	87
	From "A Voyage to Laputa"	90
	Imaginary Voyages in the Other Direction	119
	From The Journey to the World Underground	122
	Vistors from Space	128
	From Micromegas	130
	Science and Literature: When Worlds Collide	146
	From Frankenstein	149
	Science as Symbol	159
	Rappaccini's Daughter	162
	Anticipations of the Future	186
	Mellonta Tauta	189
	Expanding the Vision	201
	The Diamond Lens	203
	The Indispensable Frenchman	224
	From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea	227
	From Around the Moon	245
	Lost Civilizations and Ancient Knowledge	256
	From She	259
	The New Frontier	276
	From Looking Backward	279
	New Magazines, New Readers, New Writers	304
	The Damned Thing	307
	A Flying Start	315
	With the Night Mail	318
	The Father of Modern Science Fiction	336
	The Star	339
	About the Editor	349