This volume presents a selection from the American and British fiction of the nineteenth century which was evolving into what we now know as science fiction. The sources are accompanied by editorial commentary, and will be of great interest to students and researchers of history and literature.

David Seed holds a chair in the English Department of Liverpool University. He has written and edited a number of works on Science Fiction including Anticipations: Essays on Early Science Fiction and its Precursors (1995) and a critical edition of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1871 novel The Coming Race. He is currently co-editor of Liverpool University Press's international Science Fiction Texts and Studies series.

VOLUME II 1859-1900, Introduction, 22. 'The Palaeoscopic Camera', 23. 'The Child of the Phalanstery', 24. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, 25. 'The Great Keinplatz Experiment', 26. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 27. Blood: A Tragic Tale, 28. 'With the Eyes Shut', 29. Master of His Fate, 30. 'Dr. Materialismus', 31. The Crack of Doom, 32. 'A Wife Manufactured to Order', 33. The Professor's Experiment, 34. 'Stella', 35. The Island of Doctor Moreau, 36. 'Roentgen's Curse', 37. 'In the Deep of Time', 38. 'The Star-Shaped Marks', 39. 'From the London Times of 1904', 40. 'Moxon's Master', 41. 'My Translatophone', Bibliography, Appendix: 'Science-Fiction', Index