Frankenstein Dreams
A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Science Fiction

This collection works toward two main goals: It provides readers with a sampling of Victorian sci-fi, and it also provides a history of the science fiction genre throughout that period. An introduction briefly describes science fiction’s rise in the 19th century, and each story or excerpt is precede......more

First of all I will say that I skipped the five chapters that were excerpts from novels as I had read two of the novels already and the others I prefer not to read out of context though I hope to someday read the novels they belong to. I also think an important disclaimer for this collection of "Vic......more

A perfect three this, neither high nor low. Sitting smack bang in between. Now I love the Victorian era, all that sitting around in parlours wearing crepe and saying things like “good heavens George, did you hear that Edith has befriended a shop girl, a shop girl I say!” I also harbour a healthy tast......more

Some of the short stories are fantastic and well written, others weren’t too interesting Highlights for me were -Dreams of Forgotten Alchemists -Man-Bats on the Moon -The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar -The Telescopic Eye -The Senator’s Daughter -A Wife Manufactured to Order -The Monster of Lake LaMet......more

Frankenstein Dreams--no apostrophe there--is the kind of anthology that appeals to my fetish for retro science fiction. However, the selections here hardly classify it as retro, a period which I've delineated from the thirties, dominated by a varied crop of whimsical and fantastical pulp reads as we......more