Michael Sims is the author of several books, including The Story of Charlotte's Web, which was named a best book of the year by the Washington Post and Boston Globe. He edits The Connoisseur's Collection series of Victorian anthologies, including Dracula's Guest, The Dead Witness, and The Phantom Coach.
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Long before 1984, Star Wars, or The Hunger Games, Victorian authors imagined a future where new science and technologies reshaped the world and universe they knew. The great themes of modern science fiction showed up surprisingly early: space and time tra... SEE MORE