Tale of the Next Great War, 1871-1914 : Fictions of Future Warfare and of Battles-Still-to-Come

By: I. F. Clarke (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 September 1995

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This selection of short stories offers a return journey through the future as it used to be. Time speeds backwards to the 1870s, to the alpha point of modern futuristic fiction, when a new college of prophets and predictors first began to describe the new machines, the new societies, and the new wars that would follow in the next decade or the next century. The 1870s were the opening years of that enchanting period before World War I when Jules Verne, H.G Wells and many able writers delighted readers with their original revelations of things-to-come. In all their anticipations, the dominant factor and the prime source of their material, was the recognition that the new industrial societies would continue to evolve in obedience to the rate of change. One major event that caused all to think furiously about the future was the Franco-German war of 1870. The new weapons and the new methods of army organization had shown that the conduct of warfare was changing, and in response to that perception of change, a new form of fiction took on the task of describing the conduct of the war-to-come. The imaginary wars in this collection of sixteen stories are powerful reminiscences of dominant expectations as these were perceived and projected during a fateful period of European history.

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This excellent anthology makes available a generous and well-chosen selection of future-war narratives ... a worthy and very welcome companion [to I. F. Clarke's earlier work on futuristic fiction]. -- Paul Alkon * Utopian Studies *

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Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Introduction: The Paper Warriors and their Fights of Fantasy	p. 1
The Battle of Dorking: Reminiscences of a Volunteer (1871)	p. 27
The Battle of Dorking (1871)	p. 74
Der Ruhm; or, The Wreck of German Unity. The Narrative of a Brandenburger Hauptmann (1871)	p. 77
La Guerre au Vingtieme Siecle (1887)	p. 95
The Taking of Dover (1888)	p. 113
In a Conning Tower: How I Took HMS Majestic into Action	p. 139
The Stricken Nation (1890)	p. 162
The Raid of Le Vengeur (1901)	p. 193
The Green Curve (1907)	p. 210
The Trenches (1908)	p. 234
The Secret of the Army Aeroplane (1909)	p. 251
The Unparalleled Invasion: Excerpt from Walt Nervin's Certain Essays in History (1910)	p. 257
A Vision of the Future (1912)	p. 271
'Planes!' (1913)	p. 281
Danger! Being the Log of Captain John Sirius (1914)	p. 293
Frankreichs Ende im Jahr 19?? (1914)	p. 321
Bibliographical Notes	p. 364
Biographical Notes	p. 377
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