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The Science Fiction of Jack London
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Jack London is one of a number of important American authors who wrote science fiction in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His works include future war stories, social projections, wonderful inventions and evolutionary fantasies. This original anthology includes London's famous short novels: The Scarlet Plague, a post-catastrophe story in which the lone survivor of a terrible plague in the twenty-first century unsuccessully tries to warn the youth of a primitive tribe about man's potential for self-destruction; and The Red One, which concerns an alien object, perhaps a spaceship, which came to earth thousands of years ago and is still worshipped by savages as a God. Nine shorter science fiction pieces round out the anthology to demonstrate London's very definite place in the history and development of science fiction.
Table of contents:
- Introduction · Richard Gid Powers
- "A Relic of the Pliocene" · Colliers Jan 12 '01
- "The Minions of Midas" · Pearson's Magazine (US) May '01
- "The Shadow and the Flash" · The Bookman Jun '03
- "A Curious Fragment" · Town Topics Dec 10 '08
- "Goliah" · The Bookman Feb '10
- "The Dream of Debs" · The International Socialist Review Jan '09
- "The Unparalleled Invasion" · McClure's Jul '10
- "When the World Was Young" · The Saturday Evening Post Sep 10 '10
- "The Strength of the Strong" · Hampton's Mar '11
- "The Scarlet Plague" · The London Magazine Jun '12
- Illustrations to "The Scarlet Plague" · Gordon Grant
- "The Red One" · Cosmopolitan Oct '18
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