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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