Line #25 Literature/JourneysInScienceFiction


1	First published in 1961 by editors Creator/RichardLLoughlin and Creator/LilianMPopp, this GenreAnthology contains eighteen stories.
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3	!!Works in this anthology:
4	[[index]]
5	* "{{Literature/Daedalus}}", by Creator/ThomasBulfinch (1855)
6	* "Literature/TheBirthmark", by Creator/NathanielHawthorne (1843)
7	* "Literature/ADescentIntoTheMaelstrom", by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe (1841)
8	* "Literature/AJourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth", by Creator/JulesVerne (1864)
9	* "Literature/MoxonsMaster", by Creator/AmbroseBierce (1899)
10	* "Literature/ATaleOfNegativeGravity", by Creator/FrankRStockton (1884)
11	* "Literature/TheDisintegrationMachine", by Creator/ArthurConanDoyle (1929)
12	* "Literature/AEpyornisIsland", by Creator/HGWells (1894)
13	* "{{Literature/Wireless}}", by Creator/RudyardKipling (1902)
14	* "{{Literature/Tobermory}}", by Creator/HHMunro (1911)
15	* "Literature/TheRoadsMustRoll", by Creator/RobertAHeinlein (1940)
16	* "Literature/VisitToASmallPlanet", by Creator/GoreVidal (1956)
17	* "Literature/QuitZoominThoseHandsThroughTheAir", by Creator/JackFinney (1951)
18	* "Literature/TheFunTheyHad", by Creator/IsaacAsimov (1951)
19	* "{{Literature/Triggerman}}", by Creator/JFBone (1958)
20	* "Literature/TheReportOnTheBarnhouseEffect", by Creator/KurtVonnegut (1950)
21	* "{{Literature/Baxbr}}" by Creator/EvelynESmith (1954)
22	[[/index]]
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24	!!Tropes appearing in this work:
25	* {{Doorstopper}}: This GenreAnthology clocks in at over 600 pages.
26	* {{Epigraph}}: "Literature/ADescentIntoTheMaelstrom", by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe, is prefaced by a short quote from Creator/JosephGlanville, describing how [[InMysteriousWays ineffable God and Nature]] are.
27	--> "The ways of God in Nature, as in Providence, are not as our ways; nor are the models that we frame any way commensurate to the vastness, profundity, and unsearchableness of His works, which have a depth in them greater than the well of Democritus." '''Creator/JosephGlanville'''
28	* FramingDevice: "Literature/ADescentIntoTheMaelstrom", a ShortStory by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe, the [[NamelessNarrative unnamed narrator]] is listening to his guide, a survivor of the Norwegian [[MegaMaelstrom Moskoe-ström]].
29	* JustSoStory: "{{Literature/Daedalus}}", by Creator/ThomasBulfinch, explains that the Partridge was created when [[Myth/ClassicalMythology the goddess Minerva]] transformed Perdix into a bird, to save him from his jealous uncle Daedalus.
30	* MegaMaelstrom: In "Literature/ADescentIntoTheMaelstrom", a ShortStory by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe, the title refers to the Moskoe-ström, named by the local Norwegians. It sits still for perhaps fifteen minutes, when the tide changes. The rest of the time, it's a dangerous whirlpool which can be heard from leagues away, and local storms make the maelstrom worse.
31	* NamelessNarrative: In "Literature/ADescentIntoTheMaelstrom", a ShortStory by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe, the characters are never given names. Islands, mountains, cities, and the [[MegaMaelstrom Moskoe-ström]] are named, but only adjectives are used for human characters. This effect draws the reader to focus on the Man versus Nature {{Conflict}} in the story.
32	* PenName: "{{Literature/Tobermory}}" is credited to Creator/HHMunro, who is better known by his pseudonym {{Creator/Saki}}.
33	* PragmaticAdaptation: "{{Literature/Daedalus}}", by Creator/ThomasBulfinch, is a ShortStory version of Myth/ClassicalMythology, focused on the life of Daedalus.
34	* TalkingAnimal: The eponymous housecat of "{{Literature/Tobermory}}" is capable of [[CatsAreSnarkers snarking]], sorry; ''speaking'' in English. HilarityEnsues when it turns out Tobermory has [[BrutalHonesty no concept of tact]].
35	* YearX: "Literature/ADescentIntoTheMaelstrom", a ShortStory by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe, takes place a three years after the tenth of July, 18-.

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