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Frankenstein Dreams
Frankenstein Dreams: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Science Fiction | Michael Sims
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From Mary Shelley to H.G. Wells, a collection of the best Victorian science fiction from Michael Sims, the editor of Dracula's Guest. Long before 1984, Star Wars, or The Hunger Games, Victorian authors imagined a future where new science and technologies reshaped the world and universe they knew. The great themes of modern science fiction showed up surprisingly early: space and time travel, dystopian societies, even dangerously independent machines, all inspiring the speculative fiction of the Victorian era. In Frankenstein Dreams, Michael Sims has gathered many of the very finest stories, some by classic writers such as Jules Verne, Mary Shelley, and H.G. Wells, but many that will surprise general readers. Dark visions of the human psyche emerge in Thomas Wentworth Higginson's "The Monarch of Dreams," while Mary E. Wilkins Freeman provides a glimpse of "the fifth dimension? in her provocative tale "The Hall Bedroom.' With contributions by Edgar Allan Poe, Alice Fuller, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, Arthur Conan Doyle, and many others, each introduced by Michael Sims, whose elegant introduction provides valuable literary and historical context, Frankenstein Dreams is a treasure trove of stories known and rediscovered.
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Read-y_Picker
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Been holding on to this one all year waiting for #scarathlon2021!
It‘s also my #bookspin pick, though I haven‘t started yet.
#monsters @Linsy #scarathlon #photochallenge #TeamHendrix @StayCurious

wanderinglynn Sounds awesome! 3y
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@Clwojick is doing this fantastic #Clwojick50k Giveaway and Ghost here (renamed Catfangula once adopted) is positive that his photographer @kamoorephoto will win so she can read these FAB books! She says she would‘ve given her left arm (maybe not her right) to have had these books for his photo shoot! Have a Happy #Halloween everyone - from Ghost, all the rescue kitties and Katherine 🙀 #CatsOfLitsy

Clwojick Love it! Omg. I'm dying. 😹😺😻 7y
robinb 🤣🤣🤣🤣 7y
kamoorephoto @Clwojick I actually AM a cat photographer and Ghost sat there like a perfect model... It took this handsome guy about 6 months to get adopted though!! We took him to the Seattle Facebook offices when we did a presentation and so people could meet him and he lapped it up... I saved this shot for Halloween though! I loved this guy so much ❤️❤️❤️ (edited) 7y
CoffeeCatsBooks Aww, sweet story about Ghost! 😻I love the photo too!😹 7y
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#TBRtemptation post 5! Recently released. Science fiction from the Victorian era that helped set the stage for all works to follow. Contributions from: H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, Mary Shelley, Thomas Higginson, Mary Freeman, Alice Fuller, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, and more. Space and time travel, dystopian futures, independent machines, other dimensions. An impressive collection! #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

saresmoore There is no want. I need this. @vivastory have you come across this book? 7y
vivastory @saresmoore No!! I'm adding it to my shopping list for the weekend. I am crazy for Victorian "genre" fiction. 7y
PirateJenny This will undoubtedly be fantastic. Sims is a wonderful author who does his research and has great enthusiasm for his subjects. This is on my list. 7y
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