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A unique collection of short stories. Includes the following stories: Edgar Allan Poe, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar; Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Birth Mark; Herman Melville, The Bell Tower; Ambrose G. Bierce, The Damned Thing; Jules Verne, In The Year 2889; H. G. Wells, The Empire of the Ants; Frank Lillie Pollack, Finis; E.M. Forster, The Machine Stops; Rudyard
Kipling, As Easy as A.B.C.; Jack London, The Red One; H. P. Lovecraft, Dagon
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An indispensable guide for the student of science fiction
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Fifteen years in
the making, this meticulously researched work studies the development of
science fiction from Mary Shelley through the post world war-II years of Asimov
and Heinlein. A comprehensive look at the 'story' of science fiction and a
fascinating look at the writers of the genre.
"The best,
the best, history of science fiction I have ever read...I expect to read The
World Beyond the Hill over and over for the rest of my life. It is an
unbelievably wonderful book."--Isaac Asimov
ISBN 978-1-60450-443-9 Hardcover
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More Critical Acclaim for The World Beyond the Hill
"Anyone with
a serious interest in sf will want to read The World Beyond the Hill for its
painstaking research and wealth of fascinating detail."--The Washington
Post
"The
unfolding story is more engrossing than the plots of a good many fictional
works I could name."--Science Fiction Chronicle
"It is a
book I cannot recommend too highly."--Phlogiston (New Zealand)
"They (the
Panshins) compare writers to each other and to their times and in the process
they point out characteristics and relationship and motives that I'd never even
thought of but which seem, once pointed out, not only logical, but
inescapable." --The Midwest Book Review
"There is an
awesome amount of original research and reevaluation
here."--Locus Magazine
"An
admirable and thorough treatment of the subject, tightly and brilliantly
reasoned and very well written. I'm sure that it will be a landmark in literary
historiography."--L. Sprague de Camp
"The World
Byeond the Hill explores the development of science fiction with an insight and
cogency that, so far as my own reading goes, has never been
equaled."--Jack Williamson
"Really
Marvelous. It is obviously the classic history of science fiction."--Colin
Wilson
"This
fascinating book makes it clear that science fiction is indeed the visionary
literature of our civilization, and a much needed source of
vitality."--Charles T. Tart
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