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Tables of Contents for Trillion Year Spree
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
i
PART ONE: OUT OF THE GOTHIC
on the origin of species: mary shelley
3
35
something monomaniacal: edgar allan poe
38
16
honourable ancestors: good places and other places
54
27
the gas-enlightened race: victorian visions
81
33
the great general in dreamland: h g wells
114
21
the flight from urban culture: wells' coevals
135
24
from barsoom to beyond the borderlands: swords, sorceries and zitidars
159
24
in the clutches of the zeitgeist: mainly the thirties
183
39
the future on a chipped plate: the worlds of john w campbell's astounding
222
31
PART TWO: INTO THE BIG TIME
after the impossible happened: the fifties
253
48
the dawn of the day of the dumpbin: cinemas, computers, colleges and canticles
301
27
the day of the life-style: into the sixties
328
28
the men in their high castles: dick and other visionaries
356
36
the stars my detestation: sailing the seventies
392
52
how to be a dinosaur: seven survivors
444
30
the future now
474
49
tailpiece
523
4
notes
527
78
bibliography
605
4
index
609