Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Early Sci-Fi Authors

Early Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror Authors
These are authors who have made some contributions to the world of speculative fiction but are mostlhy known by enthusasits of literary fiction and not the mainstream reader. I'm sure there are many more then are listed here and some of the more main stream authors are listed
here.

Classical Authors
 
Sir Thomas More   7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535),
known to Roman Catholics as Saint Thomas More since 1935
Utopia (o1516)
 
Hercule-Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac (6 March 1619 – 28 July 1655
The Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon and Sun, (1687
 
Voltaire 21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778),
 
Harriet Beecher Stowe   June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896)
The Ghost in the Mill (1870)
•The Ghost in the Cap'n Brown House (1870)
•Tom Toothacre's Ghost Story (1871)
 
Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) Moby Dick (
 
Collections
Chapterbooks
 
Shortfiction
 
Kate Chopin 8 February 1850 - 22 August 1904
 

E.M. Forster (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970)
Shortfiction
 
Classical Forerunners of Sci-Fi
Edmund Spenser (c. 1552 – 13 January 1599)
The Faerie Queene (1590 1596)


Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623 – 15 December 1673)
The Blazing-World (1666)

Thomas Bulfinch (July 15, 1796 – May 27, 1867
The Age of Fable (1855)
Bulfinch's Mythology (1881) Guttenburg

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873),
The Coming Race or Vril: The Power of the Coming Race (1871)

 
 
 
 
 
 

Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894)
Goblin Market and Other Poems. London: Macmillan, 1862

William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896)
As an author, illustrator and medievalist, he helped to establish the modern fantasy genre, and was a direct influence on postwar authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien.

The Wood Beyond the World (1894) •
The Well at the World's End (1896) •
 
Clemence Housman (23 November 1861– 6 December 1955)
The were-wolf (1896)

M. P. Shiel (1865-1947)
The Purple Cloud (1901; 1929)

Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 – December 16, 1933)
The King in Yellow (1895)
The Maker of Moons (1896)

Gustav Meyrink (January 19, 1868 – December 4, 1932)
The Golem (1914)
 
Algernon Henry Blackwood (14 March 1869 – 10 December 1951
A Prisoner in Fairyland (1913)
 
A. E. COPPARD (4 January 1878–13 January 1957)
Adam and Eve and Pinch Me (1921)
Clorinda Walks in Heaven (1922)
Fearful Pleasures (coll 1946 US)
Collected Tales of A.E. Coppard (coll 1947)

Lord Dunsany (24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957)
In the Land of Time, and Other Fantasy Tales (2004)
 
Gertrude Barrows Bennett (1883–1948)
The Citadel of Fear (1918)
The Labyrinth (1918)
The Heads of Cerberus (1919)
'Claimed (1920)
The Nightmare And Other Tales Of Dark Fantasy (2004)
 
Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin 2/ 1/ 1884 – 3/10/1937)
We (1924)
Works on Line

William Fryer Harvey (1885–1937)
Midnight House and Other Tales (1910)
August Heat (ss) (1910)
The Beast with Five Fingers (1928)
Moods and Tenses (1933)
 
Jeremy Lane (1893 - September 18, 1963)
Yellow Men Sleep (1919)
A Lost World novel Google Books
 
Karel Capek, (1890--1938)
1920 –
R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) (Rossumovi univerzální roboti) – play with one of the first examples of artificial human-like beings in art and literature. eBooks @ Adelaide
1922 – The Makropulos Affair (Věc Makropulos) – play about human immortality, not really from a science-fiction point of view. The celebrated opera by Leoš Janáček is based on it.
1922 – The Absolute at Large (Továrna na absolutno) – novel which can be interpreted as a vision of consumer society.
1922 – Krakatit – novel, the plot of which includes a prediction of a nuclear-weapon-like explosive.
1936 – War with the Newts (Válka s mloky) – satirical dystopian novel. eBooks @ Adelaide
 
MORE SCI-FI PIONERS

Garrett Putnam Serviss (1851 - 1929) FREE ONLINE
Edison's Conquest of Mars, 1898 (written on commission from The Boston Post as a sequel to "Fighters from Mars", an un-authorized and heavily altered version of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds)
The Moon Metal, 1900 (short story)
A Columbus of Space, 1909 (dedicated to people who read Jules Verne and written in his style; first published in All-Story magazine in 1909; republished by G. W. Dilligham, 1974, by Hyperion Press)

The Sky Pirate (novel), 1909
The Second Deluge, 1911
The Moon Maiden, 1915
 
Edward Page Mitchell March 24, 1852 - 1927)
The Crystal Man (1973)
The Tachypomp and Other Stories (2006)
•Collected Stories (2006)
•Sci-Fi and Fantasy Stories From 'The Sun' (2013)


J.-H. Rosny (17 February 1856 – 11 February 1940)
Three Science Fiction Novellas: From Prehistory to the End of Mankind (2012)
The Scientific Romances of J.-H. Rosny Aîné ◦ 1 The Navigators of Space and Other Alien Encounters (2010) [C] [only as by J.-H. Rosny aîné ]
◦ 2 The World of the Variants and Other Strange Lands (2010) [C]
◦ 3 The Mysterious Force and other Anomalous Phenomena (2010) [C] [only as by J.-H. Rosny aîné ]
◦ 4 Vamireh and Other Prehistoric Fantasies (2010) [C] [only as by J.-H. Rosny aîné ]
◦ 5 The Givreuse Enigma and Other Stories (2010) [C] [only as by J.-H. Rosny aîné ]
◦ 6 The Young Vampire and Other Cautionary Tales (2010) [C] [only as by J.-H. Rosny aîné ]
◦ 7 Helgvor of the Blue River (2010) [C] [only as by J.-H. Rosny aîné ]

Luis P. Senarens (1865 Apr 24 - 1939)
Frank Reade Stories
Jack Wright Stories

Maurice Renard (1875 - 1940)
The Blue Peril (2010) Le Peril Bleu (1911)
The Hands of Orlac (1929) Les Mains d'Orlac (1920)
Blind Circle (1928) Le Singe (1925)
The Master of Light (2010) Le Maître de la Lumière (1933)

Collections
•Doctor Lerne (2010) New Bodies for Old (1923)
•A Man Among the Microbes (2010)
•The Doctored Man (2010)

William Hope Hodgson- (November 15, 1877 – April 1918)
The Night Land (1912)
The House on the Borderland (1908) [also as by W. H. Hodgson ]
Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder (1913) [C]
The Ghost Pirates (1909)

Christopher Morley (May 5, 1890 – March 28, 1957)
Parnassus on Wheels (novel, 1917)
Guttenburg
The Haunted Bookshop (novel, 1919)
Guttenburg
Where the Blue Begins (1922) Guttenburg
Thunder on the Left (1925)
Pleased to Meet You (1927)
The Trojan Horse (1937)
The Arrow (1927  
The Arrow and Two Other Stories coll 1927 UK);
The Swiss Family Manhattan (1932).


MORE EARLY SCI-FI AUTHORS
 
William Austin (March 2, 1778 – June 27, 1841)
•Martha Gardner: or, Moral Reaction (1837)
•The Man with the Cloaks: A Vermont Legend (1886)
•A Further Account of Peter Rugg (1959)
 
Thomas Wentworth Higginson 22 December 1823- 9 May 1911 Guttenburg
The Monarch of Dreams (1886)
Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic (1898)
 
Fitz-James O'Brien 31 December 1828 - 6 April 1862
The Diamond Lens (1858) Guttenburg
What Was It? (1859) Guttenburg
 
The Supernatural Tales of Fitz-James O'Brien ◦
1 The Supernatural Tales of Fitz-James O'Brien, Volume One: Macabre Tales (1988) [C]
The Supernatural Tales of Fitz-James O'Brien, Volume Two: Dream Stories and Fantasies (1988) [C]
 
Collections •
The Wondersmith and Others (2008)
•The Diamond Lens and Other Stories (2011)
 
Richard Stockton (April 5, 1834 – April 20, 1902) Guttenburg
 
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (born June 24, 1842;[2] assumed to have died sometime after December 26, 1913[1]) Guttenburg
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1890)
The Cynic's Word Book 1906 The Devil's Dictionary 1911.   
 
Robert Duncan Milne (7th June 1844–15th December 1899)
Into the Sun & Other Stories (1980)
 
Stanley Waterloo 21 May 1846 - 11 October 1913  Guttenburg
The Wolf's Long Howl (1899)
 
Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (February 24, 1848 – October 25, 1899) Guttenburg
Strange Stories (1884)
 
Sarah Orne Jewett (September 3, 1849 – June 24, 1909) Guttenburg
Lady Ferry and Other Uncanny People (1998)
 
Edward Bellamy 26 March 1850 - 22 May 1898 Guttenburg
The Blindman's World and Other Stories (1898)
•Apparitions of Things to Come: Edward Bellamy's Tales of Mystery & Imagination (1986)
 
Will N. Harben [as by William Harben ] 5 July 1858 -7 August 1919 Guttenburg
•In the Year Ten Thousand (1892 Shortfiction
The Land of the Changing Sun (1894)
 
Frederic Jesup Stimson (1855–1943) Guttenburg
The King's Men: A Tale of To-Morrow (1884
Dr. Materialismus (1890)
 
Charlotte Perkins Gilman 3 July 1860 - 17 August 1935
The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) Guttenburg
 
 
Arthur E. Bostwick (8 March 1860 in Litchfield, Connecticut – 13 February 1942
Four-Dimensional Space" (1896)
 
 
Edith Wharton 24 January 1862 - 11 August 1937 Guttenburg
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton (1973)
 
Weatherby Chesney (1866–1944
The Recipe for Diamonds (1893) Guttenburg
The Adventures of a Solicitor (1898)
The Adventures of an Engineeer (1898)
The Lost Continent (1900) Guttenburg
Further Adventures of Captain Kettle (Master of Fortune) (1901) Guttenburg
Atoms of Empire (1904
 
Edward Bellamy (March 26, 1850 – May 22, 1898)
The Blindman's World and Other Stories (1898)
Looking Backward, 2000–1887. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Co., 1889. Internet Archive
Apparitions of Things to Come: Edward Bellamy's Tales of Mystery & Imagination (1986)
 
Guy de Maupassant (French pronunciation: ​5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893)
Guttenburg
Selected Tales of Guy De Maupassant (1950)
 
Frank L. Pollack, (February 4 1876–1957)
The Last Dawn (1906)
Finis (1906)   Guttenburg
 
From the "London Times" of 1904 • (1898) • shortstory by Mark Twain
Four-Dimensional Space • (1885) • essay by Anonymous

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