Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Science Fiction of the 19th Century is an anthology edited by Isaac Asimov. It was first published by Beaufort Books in 1981.
Contents[]
- Introduction: The First Century of Science Fiction - essay by Isaac Asimov
- The Sandman - novelette by E. T. A. Hoffmann (trans. of Der Sandmann 1816)
- The Mortal Immortal - short story by Mary Shelley
- A Descent Into the Maelstrom - short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of A Descent Into the Maelström)
- Rappaccini's Daughter - novelette by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Clock That Went Backwards - short story by Edward Page Mitchell
- Into the Sun - short story by Robert Duncan Milne
- A Tale of Negative Gravity - novelette by Frank R. Stockton
- The Horla, or Modern Ghosts - novelette by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Le Horla 1887)
- The Shapes - novelette by J. H. Rosny aîné (trans. of Les Xipéhuz)
- To Whom This May Come - short story by Edward Bellamy
- The Great Keinplatz Experiment - short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
- In the Abyss - short story by H. G. Wells
- The Thames Valley Catastrophe - short story by Grant Allen
- The Lizard - short story by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
- A Thousand Deaths - short story by Jack London
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