Sources of Science Fiction
Future War Novels of the 1890s
Published on 12. November 1998
Book
3040 pages
978-0-415-19288-0 (ISBN)
Description
These novels map the evolution of a relatively new literary genre: the British speculative future war novel. They forecast invasions from the land, sea, air, and ultimately, outer space. They can be interpreted in many ways: as fin-de-siecle paranoia, as critiques of British imperialism, as xenophobic tirades, or as fear of the advances of technology. Taken together they illustrate the development of the genre that cultimated in The War of the Worlds and which afterwards overshadowed the whole of the twentieth century.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
General and Postgraduate
Illustrations
illustrations
Weight
453 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-19288-0 (9780415192880)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Volume 1. The War in England in 189- [1893] 318pp Rear-Admiral P. Colomb, Colonel J.F. Maurice, Captain F.N. Maude, Archibald Forbes, Charles Lowe, D. Christie Murray, F. Scudamore Volume 2. The Great War in England in 1897 [1894] 330pp William Le Queux Volume 3. The Captain of the 'Mary Rose'. A Tale of Tomorrow [1894] 324pp W. Laird Clowes Volume 4. The Angel of the Revolution: A Tale of the Coming Terror [1895] 401pp George Griffith Volume 5. The Final War [1896] 384pp Loius Tracy Volume 6. Blake of the 'Rattlesnake'; or, The Man who saved England: A Story of Torpedo Warfare [1895] 269pp Fred T. Jane Volume 7. The Yellow Danger [1898] 354pp M.P. Shiel Volume 8. The War of the Wenuses [1898] 140pp C.L. Graves and E.V. Lucas, Edison's Conquest of Mars [1898 (1947)] 159pp Garrett P. Serviss, The Struggle for Empire [1900] 213pp R.W. Cole