John Butt

Ignatius Frederick Clarke

Discusses the anatomy of a bird and explains the basic aerodynamic principles involved in bird flight.

A Symposium

The Victorians and Social Protest

The Pattern of Expectation, 1644-2001

In the second of a series of anthologies on future war stories, the leading specialist in the field presents a selection of prophetic tales about the conflict-to-come between the British and the Germans, tales which had immense influence in the quarter-century before the First World War. An extensive range of contemporary illustrations is included.

Fictions and Fantasies of the War-to-come

The Great War with Germany, 1890-1914

A selection of prophetic stories written in the quarter-century before the first world war about the conflict-to-come between the British and the Germans. The authors had in common a commitment to anticipate and describe the causes and the consequences of "The Next Great War" which they were convinced would break out--sooner or later--between the major European powers. The editor provides an introduction to 37 extracts selected from the most representative British stories and German accounts. The epilogue is an "account" of the invasion of the US by a victorious Germany. The preface mentions that this is the second volume of a five-volume subseries on future-war fiction, part of the larger series on science fiction texts. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

An Annotated Bibliography of Those Satires, Ideal States, Imaginary Wars and Invasions, Coming Catastrophes and End-of-the-world Stories, Political Warnings and Forecasts, Inter-planetary Voyages and Scientific Romances--all Located in an Imaginary Future Period--that Have Been Published in the United Kingdom Between 1644 and 1976

Tale of the Future, from the Beginning to the Present Day

I. F. Clarke

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.

Ignatius Frederick Clarke

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