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Tales of the Next Great War, 1871-1914: Future Warfare and of Battles Still-to-Come
| Author: | I. F. Clarke |
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Liverpool University Press, 1995 |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | Military SF |
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Synopsis
This selection of short stories offers a return journey through the future as it used to be. Time speeds backwards to the 1870s - to the alpha point of modern futuristic fiction - the opening years of that enchanted period before the First World War when Jules Verne, H. G. Wells and many able writers delighted readers from Sydney to Seattle with their most original revelations of things-to-come. In all their anticipations, the dominant factor was the recognition that the new industrial societies would continue to evolve in obedience to the rate of change. One major event that caused all to think furiously about the future was the Franco-German War of 1870. The new weapons and the new methods of army organization had shown that the conduct of warfare was changing; and, in response to that perception of change, a new form of fiction took on the task of describing the conduct of the war-to-come.
Contents:
- 1 - Introduction: The Paper Warriors and Their Fights of Fantasy - (1995) - essay by I. F. Clarke
- 27 - The Battle of Dorking: Reminiscences of a Volunteer - (1871) - novella by George Tomkyns Chesney
- 74 - The Battle of Dorking - (1871) - poem by Anonymous
- 77 - Der Ruhm, or, The Wreck of German Unity. The Narrative of a Brandenburger Hauptmann - (1871) - shortstory by Anonymous
- 95 - War in the Twentieth Century - [Le vingtième siècle / The Twentieth Century - 2] - (1995) - shortstory by Albert Robida (trans. of La Guerre au vingtième siècle 1887)
- 113 - The Taking of Dover (excerpt) - (1888) - shortfiction by Horace Francis Lester
- 139 - In a Conning Tower: How I Took HMS Majestic Into Action - (1888) - novelette by Hugh Oakley Arnold-Foster
- 162 - The Stricken Nation (excerpt) - (1890) - shortfiction by Hugh Grattan Donnelly
- 193 - The Raid of Le Vengeur - (1901) - shortstory by George Griffith
- 210 - The Green Curve - (1909) - novelette by Ole-Luk-Oie [as by Ernest Swinton ]
- 234 - The Trenches - (1908) - shortstory by C. E. Vickers
- 251 - The Secret of the Army Aeroplane - (1909) - shortstory by A. A. Milne
- 257 - The Unparalleled Invasion - (1910) - shortstory by Jack London
- 271 - A Vision of the Future - (1912) - shortstory by Gustaf Janson
- 281 - Planes! - (1913) - shortstory by F. Britten Austin [as by Frederick Britten Austin ]
- 293 - Danger!: Being the Log of Captain John Sirius - (1914) - novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle (variant of Danger!)
- 321 - Frankreichs Ende im Jahr 19?? (excerpt) - (1995) - novelette by Adolf Sommerfeld
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