| "The Artist of the Beautiful" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Nathaniel Hawthorne
                              
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                        1844 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1966 | Future Perfect edited by H. Bruce Franklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Atoms of Chladni" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                J. D. Whelpley
                              
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                        1860 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1966 | Future Perfect edited by H. Bruce Franklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Bell-Tower" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Herman Melville
                              
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                        1855 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1966 | Future Perfect edited by H. Bruce Franklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Birthmark" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Nathaniel Hawthorne
                              
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                        1843 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1966 | Future Perfect edited by H. Bruce Franklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Blindman's World" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Edward Bellamy
                              
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                        1886 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1966 | Future Perfect edited by H. Bruce Franklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Christmas 200,000 B.C." | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Stanley Waterloo
                              
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                        1887 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1966 | Future Perfect edited by H. Bruce Franklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Diamond Lens" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Fitz-James O'Brien
                              
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                        1858 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1966 | Future Perfect edited by H. Bruce Franklin | 
                                             | 1977 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 1: From Gilgamesh to Wells edited by James Gunn | 
                                             | 2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Dr. Materialismus" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Frederic Jesup Stimson
                              
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                        1890 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1966 | Future Perfect edited by H. Bruce Franklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Edgar Allan Poe
                              
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                        1845 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1966 | Future Perfect edited by H. Bruce Franklin | 
                                             | 1983 | Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology edited by Eric S. Rabkin | 
                                             | 2017 | Frankenstein Dreams edited by Michael Sims | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "From the London Times of 1904" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Mark Twain
                              
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                        1898 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1962 | A Century of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight | 
                                             | 1966 | Future Perfect edited by H. Bruce Franklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "In the Year Ten Thousand" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Will N. Harben
                              
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                        1892 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1966 | Future Perfect edited by H. Bruce Franklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Mellonta Tauta" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Edgar Allan Poe
                              
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                        1849 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1966 | Future Perfect edited by H. Bruce Franklin | 
                                             | 1977 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 1: From Gilgamesh to Wells edited by James Gunn | 
                                             | 1983 | The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg | 
                                             | 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Men of the Moon" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Washington Irving
                              
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                        1809 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1966 | Future Perfect edited by H. Bruce Franklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Monarch of Dreams" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Thomas Wentworth Higginson
                              
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                        1886 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1966 | Future Perfect edited by H. Bruce Franklin | 
                                             | 2017 | Frankenstein Dreams edited by Michael Sims | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Mysterious Disappearances" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Ambrose Bierce
                              
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                        1893 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1966 | Future Perfect edited by H. Bruce Franklin | 
                                             | 2017 | Frankenstein Dreams edited by Michael Sims | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "A Psychological Shipwreck" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Ambrose Bierce
                              
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                        1879 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1966 | Future Perfect edited by H. Bruce Franklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Rappaccini's Daughter" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Nathaniel Hawthorne
                              
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                        1844 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1966 | Future Perfect edited by H. Bruce Franklin | 
                                             | 1977 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 1: From Gilgamesh to Wells edited by James Gunn | 
                                             | 1981 | Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Science Fiction of the 19th Century edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh | 
                                             | 1983 | Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology edited by Eric S. Rabkin | 
                                             | 2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al | 
                                             | 2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "A Tale of the Ragged Mountains" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Edgar Allan Poe
                              
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                        1844 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             | 1966 | Future Perfect edited by H. Bruce Franklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "A Thousand Deaths" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Jack London
                              
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                        1899 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1966 | Future Perfect edited by H. Bruce Franklin | 
                                             | 1981 | Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Science Fiction of the 19th Century edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "To Whom This May Come" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Edward Bellamy
                              
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                        1889 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1966 | Future Perfect edited by H. Bruce Franklin | 
                                             | 1981 | Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Science Fiction of the 19th Century edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Was He Dead?" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Silas W. Mitchell
                              
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                        1870 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1966 | Future Perfect edited by H. Bruce Franklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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