Dive into the realm of speculative fiction with "Mirrikh, or, A Woman from Mars" by Francis Worcester Doughty. Set in the 1890s, this science fiction novel explores the intriguing concept of interplanetary encounters and the mysteries of the universe. Doughty's imaginative narrative and richly crafted world make this a must-read for fans of pulp fiction and classic sci-fi.

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Includes plot summaries and detailed descriptions of 194 works of science fiction from the 19th and 20th centuries.

American screenwriter and novelist, who specialized in pulp fiction, including detective and science Fiction tales. He was also a numismatist and coin collector. Pen names: Horace Appleton; Albert J. Booth; Paul Braddon; R. T. Emmet; Tom Fox; Philadelphia Detective; Gaston Garne; K. F. Hill; Police Captain Howard; Jas. D. Montague; Richard R. Montgomery; Ralph Morton; A New York Detective; Percy B. (Percy Bolingbroke) St. John, 1821-1889; Hal Standish; D. W. Stevens; Francis Worcester Doughty.

In this volume the author describes more than 3000 short stories, novels, and plays with science fiction elements, from earliest times to 1930. He includes imaginary voyages, utopias, Victorian boys' books, dime novels, pulp magazine stories, British scientific romances and mainstream work with science fiction elements. Many of these publications are extremely rare, surviving in only a handful of copies, and most of them have never been described before.

This book is the definitive critical history of science fiction. The 2006 first edition of this work traced the development of the genre from Ancient Greece and the European Reformation through to the end of the 20th century. This new 2nd edition has been revised thoroughly and very significantly expanded. An all-new final chapter discusses 21st-century science fiction, and there is new material in every chapter: a wealth of new readings and original research. The author’s groundbreaking thesis that science fiction is born out of the 17th-century Reformation is here bolstered with a wide range of new supporting material and many hundreds of 17th- and 18th-century science fiction texts, some of which have never been discussed before. The account of 19th-century science fiction has been expanded, and the various chapters tracing the twentieth-century bring in more writing by women, and science fiction in other media including cinema, TV, comics, fan-culture and other modes.