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The End of the World
A century-and-more ago, while some people pondered the pinnacle that civilization had attained, others worried how it would come crashing down. Many of the era s best writers gave shape to those fears in wildly speculative stories that envisioned unthinkable fates and spectacular dooms for our planet and its people.
The End of the World collects twenty-one classic stories a...more
The End of the World collects twenty-one classic stories a...more
Hardcover, 457 pages
Published
August 16th 2010
by Sterling Publishing
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8/29/12: I took this off my to-read shelf last night and was immediately disappointed; it was not at all what I thought it was, an anthology of apocalyptic short stories and novellas. Well, actually, it is, it's just that it is a collection of things written in the 1800s through early 1900s, and not the finest work of any of the authors (Lord Byron, H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, etc). Strictly of academic interest, not a rousing science fiction tale in the bunch. Shame on me for not looking over the...more
Oh, classic sci-fi, how I have missed you! I just love the combination of creative spirit, scientific discovery, and (in most cases) Victorian culture that can be found in stories from what I consider the dawn of the genre. Many of the authors in this anthology are already well-known - Jack London, E.M. Forster, H.G. Wells, H.P. Lovecraft (we seem to like abbreviated names here), Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Lord Byron - though not necessarily for...more
This book is a collection of turn-of-the-century short stories from when the world was making the transition from the 19th to the 20th. What I found to be particularly fascinating were all of the hard science elements throughout these stories. The authors clearly had a higher estimation of their readers' general science knowledge than is currently accepted.
It was an gripping read; I thoroughly enjoyed sitting down each night and finding out how the end would happen. Fire, flood, ice or even alie...more
It was an gripping read; I thoroughly enjoyed sitting down each night and finding out how the end would happen. Fire, flood, ice or even alie...more
Loved this book. I've never read science fiction from this era and the concepts that the authors came up with were fascinating. I'm telling you that especially at this time in history, when everyone has a theory on how the world or at least society is going to end, these guys 100-150 years ago had some interesting theories themselves. Comets and clouds and rogue stars and plagues...awesome.
My favorite was Jack London's story, The Scarlet Plague.
My favorite was Jack London's story, The Scarlet Plague.
Just would like to say that the collection of works in this anthology are of varied yet consistently excellent themes. Well put together, I say. Very well, indeed.
I enjoyed this book alot. Good ideas, etc.
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