The Time Ship
A Chrononautical Journey
Published on 20. February 2025
241 pages
978-0-8195-7239-4 (ISBN)
Description
H. G. Wells wasn't the only nineteenth-century writer to dream of a time machine. The Spanish playwright Enrique Gaspar published El anacronópete--"He who flies against time"--eight years before Wells's influential work appeared. The novel begins at the 1878 Paris Exposition, where Dr. Don Sindulfo unveils his new invention--which looks like a giant sailing vessel. Soon the doctor embarks on a voyage back in time, accompanied by a motley crew of French prostitutes and Spanish soldiers. The purpose of his expedition is to track down the imprisoned wife of a third-century Chinese emperor, believed to possess the secret to immortality. A classic tale of obsession, high adventure, and star-crossed love, The Time Ship includes intricately drawn illustrations from the original 1887 edition, and a critical introduction that argues persuasively for The Time Ship's historical importance to science fiction and world literature.
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ENRIQUE GASPAR (1842 ? 1902) was a Spanish diplomat and pioneer of social theater. YOLANDA MOLINA-GAVILÁN is a professor of Spanish at Eckerd College. ANDREA L. BELL is a professor of Spanish and Latin American studies at Hamline University. Molina-Gavilán and Bell are the coeditors of Cosmos Latinos: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Time Ship's Place in the History of Science Fiction
- Chapter 1: In Which It Is Proved That FORWARD Is Not the Byword of Progress
- Chapter 2: A Lecture within Everyone's Reach
- Chapter 3: Theory of Time: How It Is Made, How It Is Unmade
- Chapter 4: Which Deals with Family Affairs
- Chapter 5: Cupid and Mars
- Chapter 6: The Vehicle as School of Morality
- Chapter 7: Away!
- Chapter 8: Retroactive Effects
- Chapter 9: The Gradual Reduction and Ultimate Elimination of the Army
- Chapter 10: In Which a Seemingly Insignificant Yet Greatly Important Incident Takes Place
- Chapter 11: A Bit of Tiresome, Though Necessary, Erudition
- Chapter 12: Forty-eight Hours in the Celestial Empire
- Chapter 13: Nineteenth-century Europe Meets Third-century China
- Chapter 14: An Unexpected Guest
- Chapter 15: The Resurrection of the Dead before Judgment Day
- Chapter 16: Where All Is Explained and All Is Entangled
- Chapter 17: Bread and Circuses
- Chapter 18: Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
- Chapter 19: Shipwrecked in the Sky
- Chapter 20: The Best One
- Not Because It's Better but Because It's Last
- Notes
- Bibliography
