Before Armageddon

Before Armageddon

"Before Armageddon: An Anthology of Victorian and Edwardian Imaginative Fiction Published Before 1914" is a collection of stories, including invasion literature, and one article, all edited by Michael Moorcock. Originally published in hardback by W.H. Allen in 1975, it was re-issued as a paperback by Star in 1976.

The collection is notable largely for the introduction by the noted Science fiction writer Michael Moorcock.

Contents

*"Introduction" - Michael Moorcock
*"The Battle of Dorking" - George Tomkyns Chesney ("Blackwood’s", May, 1871)
*"Dr. Trifulgas" - Jules Verne (The Strand, July 1892; "Le Figaro Illustre", December 1884)
*"The Raid of Le Vengeur" - George Griffith ("Pearson’s Magazine" (US) February 1901)
*"The Great War in England in 1897" - William Le Queux ("Answers", 1893)
*"Life in Our New Century" - W. J. Wintle ("The Harmsworth Magazine", January 1901)
*"The Three Drugs" - E. Nesbit ("The Strand", Feb 1908)

ee also

*"England Invaded", a second collection


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