Future perfect
by H. Bruce Franklin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Ambrose Bierce
Hawthorne and Poe:
Hawthorne. Nathaniel Hawthorne and science fiction ; ; The artist of the beautiful ; --
Poe. Edgar Allan Poe and science fiction ; A tale of the Ragged Mountains ; ; Mellonta Tauta --
Explorations: Automata. Herman Melville and science fiction ; The bell-tower ; Man as machine ; Dr. Materialismus --
Marvelous inventions. The atoms of Chladni --
Medicine men. Was he dead? --
Into the psyche. Thomas Wentworth Higginson and his dreamer ; The monarch of dreams ; Ambrose Bierce and science fiction ; A psychological shipwreck --
Edward Bellamy and science fiction ; To whom this may come --
Space travel. The blindman's world ; Fitz-James O'Brien and science fiction ; The diamond lens ; Dimensional speculation as science fiction ; Four-dimensional space ; Mysterious disappearances ; From "Four-dimensional space" --
Time travel. Beyond the past ; Christmas 200,000 B.C. ; Mark Twain and science fiction ; From the "London Times" of 1904 ; Perfect future ; In the year ten thousand ; The present perfect.
