Essential Robert Duncan Milne

Essential Robert Duncan Milne

Stories by the Lost Pioneer of Science Fiction

Brin, Ari; Milne, Robert Duncan; Williams, Dr Keith

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

01/2025

328

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9781350412620

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List of Illustrations
Foreword by Ken MacLeod
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Ghost of Futures Past
Note on the Text

Introduction to Thematic Cluster 1
The Artificial Eyes and Ears of Science:
Early Imaginings of Global Telecommunication Systems
and Surveillance Devices
The Great Electric Diaphragm (1879)
The Aerial Cone Reflector (1881)
The Palaeoscopic Camera (1881)

Introduction to Thematic Cluster 2
Science Fiction Crime Stories:
The Impact of Technology on Human Matters
and "Karmic" Justice in the Modern Age
A Dead Man's Ring (1883)
A Modern Proteus (1888)
The Silent Witness (1889)
The Eidoloscope (1890)

Introduction to Thematic Cluster 3
Scientizing Spiritualism:
Stories of Clairvoyance, Telekinesis, and Teleportation
A New Palingenesis (1883)
A Modern Magic Mirror (1884)
Prof. Vehr's Electrical Experiment (1885)
Baron Von Steinbach's Soul (1885)

Introduction to Thematic Cluster 4
Bodies without Limits:
Stories of Transfusions, Youth-Elixirs, and Radical Surgeries
A Man Who Grew Young Again (1887)
The Centenary of the Elixir (1889)
Brain Transference (1891)

Introduction to Thematic Cluster 5
Apocalypse and Things to Come:
Visions of Possible Futures
Into the Sun (1882)
The Awful Cataclysm in Ireland (1885)
A Question of Reciprocity (1891)
How San Francisco Looked in 1893
An Archeological Fantasy (1893)

Bibliography
Notes
Index
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Scottish author; North American literature; The Argonaut; San Francisco Examiner; climate catastrophe; utopia; cryogenics; molecular engineering; drone warfare; surveillance; advanced technology; science writing; prescient writing; Sam Moskowitz; recovering scholarship; H. G. Wells; Jules Verne; Ambrose Bierce; Gertrude Atherton