Past, Present, & Future Perfect: A Text Anthology of Speculative & Science Fiction by Thomas More, Tommaso Campanella, Isaac Asimov, Ambrose Bierce, Jonathan Swift, Graham Greene, Ray Bradbury, B.F. Skinner, Arthur C. Clarke, Cyrano de Bergerac, Elizabeth Mann Borgese, Plato, Kurt Vonnegut, Mary Shelley, Voltaire, Clifford D. Simak, Francis Bacon, Lucian of Samosata, Edgar Allan Poe, Samuel Butler, Jack C. Wolf, Gregory Fitz Gerald, Arthur Conan Doyle, E.B. White, Poul Anderson, Cyril Connolly, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edward Bellamy, John Brunner, H.G. Wells, Jules Verne

544 pages first pub 1973 (editions)

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Until recently, speculative fiction was viewed as popular entertainment and was long denied the mantle of literary respectability. The insistence of characterization as the major criterion of literary judgement contributed to this appraisal. Where...

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