Collected here are the stories, poems, and religious writings that preceded and helped form the science fiction and fantasy genres. The collection explores the key imaginative root base and their afterwards literary permutations. The writer list by itself reads like a literary who’s who and contains many writers not really primarily known because of their forays into the great. Organized by topic rather than basic chronology, this volume allows the listener to trace the annals of robots, aliens, and apocalypses up for some of their latest manifestations.

Subject chapters and represented authors include “Transformers” (Cards, Asimov, Rossetti), “Shocking Futures” (Swift, More), and “Journeying Fools” (Carol, Burroughs, McCaffrey). This definitive collection of science fiction and dream sources illustrates how earlier generations imagined the near future.