Tales of Wonder
$22.95
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| Trade Discount | 5 + | 25% |
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Description
Mark Twain’s unsettling imagination and passionate curiosity roamed far and wide—racing across microscopic worlds and interstellar voids, leaping ahead to fearful futures, and speculating on dazzling inventions to come. Tales of Wonder features some of the most notable but little-known science fiction available, penned by the famed American humorist and writer. With characteristic wit and acuity, Twain embarks on an epic journey into a drop of water, catches a glimpse of an invisible man, reveals a generation-starship-type world in the heart of a drifting iceberg, and imagines futuristic devices of instantaneous communication such as the “phrenophone” and “telelectroscope.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) was the author of such classics as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as well as many short stories, including those appearing in the recent collection, How Nancy Jackson Married Kate Wilson and Other Tales of Rebellious Girls and Daring Young Women (Nebraska 2001). David Ketterer is an emeritus professor of English at Concordia University in Montreal and an honorary research fellow in the Department of English at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of numerous books, including Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy and Imprisoned in a Tesseract: The Life and Work of James Blish.
“Tales of Wonder . . . gathers the American master’s shorter imaginative fiction in a handy scholarly volume.”—Publishers Weekly
“The author’s masterful writing in many little-know tales and Ketterer’s introdution and notes make Tales of Wonder a book every Twain fan and science fiction lover should have.”—Mark Graham, Rocky Mountain News
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| Weight | 1 oz |
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| Dimensions | 1 × 6 × 9 in |
