Contents:. Photography . Christine Haycock . il . Preface . Sam Moskowitz . pr . Introduction: A History of Science Fiction in the Popular Magazines, 1891-1911 . Sam Moskowitz . in . The Thames Valley Catastrophe . Grant Allen . ss The Strand Dec, 1897 . The Doom of London . Robert Barr . ss The Idler Nov, 1892 . A Corner in Lightning . George Griffith . ss Pearson's Magazine Mar, 1898 . The Tilting Island . Thomas J. Vivian and u0026 G. J. Bennett . ss Everybody's Magazine Sep '09 . Finis . Frank Lillie Pollock . ss Argosy Jun '06 . An Express of the Future . Jules Verne . ss The Strand Jan, 1895 . The Ray of Displacement . Harriet Prescott Spofford . nv Metropolitan Magazine Oct '03 . Congealing the Ice Trust . H. G. Bishop . vi Broadway Magazine Dec '07 . Lord Beden's Motor . J. B. Harris-Burland . ss The Strand Dec '01 . The Death-Trap . George Daulton . ss Pearson's Magazine (US) Mar '08 . The Air Serpent . Will A. Page . ss The Red Book Magazine Apr '11 . The Monster of Lake LaMetrie . Wardon Allan Curtis . ss Pearson's Magazine Sep, 1899 . The Voice in the Night . William Hope Hodgson . ss Blue Book Nov '07 . The Land Ironclads . H. G. Wells . nv The Strand Dec '03 . The Dam . Hugh S. Johnson . ss The Red Book Magazine Apr '11 . Submarined . Walter Wood . ss Pearson's Magazine (US) Feb '05 . The Purple Terror . Fred M. White . ss The Strand Sep, 1899 . Professor Jonkin's Cannibal Plant [Professor Jonkin] . Howard R. Garis . ss Argosy Aug '05 . An Experiment in Gyro-Hats . Ellis Parker Butler . ss Hampton's Jun '10 . The Hybrid Hyperborean Ant . Roy L. McCardell . ss Hampton's Dec '10 . Where the Air Quivered . L. T. Meade and u0026 Robert Eustace . nv The Strand Dec, 1898 . In re State vs. Forbes . Warren Earle . ss The Black Cat Jul '06 . Old Doctor Rutherford . D. F. Hannigan . ss The Ludgate Magazine Sep, 1891 . Itself . Edgar Mayhew Bacon . ss The Black Cat May '07 . Citizen 504 . Charles H. Palmer . ss Argosy Dec, 1896 . The Mansion of Forgetfulness . Don Mark Lemon . ss The Black Cat Apr '07