This Is A New Release Of The Original 1903 Edition.

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

This is an encyclopedic work, arranged by broad categories and then by original authors, of literary pastiches in which fictional characters have reappeared in new works after the deaths of the authors that created them. It includes book series that have continued under a deceased writer's real or pen name, undisguised offshoots issued under the new writer's name, posthumous collaborations in which a deceased author's unfinished manuscript is completed by another writer, unauthorized pastiches, and "biographies" of literary characters. The authors and works are entered under the following categories: Action and Adventure, Classics (18th Century and Earlier), Classics (19th Century), Classics (20th Century), Crime and Mystery, Espionage, Fantasy and Horror, Humor, Juveniles (19th Century), Juveniles (20th Century), Poets, Pulps, Romances, Science Fiction and Westerns. Each original author entry includes a short biography, a list of original works, and information on the pastiches based on the author's characters.

Originally published in 1978, this anthology includes facsimile reprints of three early fantasy novels: "Alice in Blunderland" (another adventure of Alice in Wonderland), by John Kendrick Bangs; "The Adventures of the Six Princesses of Babylon in Their Travels to the Temple of Virtue," by Lucy Peacock; and "The Log of the Water Wagon; or, The Cruise of the Good Ship 'Lithia'," by Bert Leston Taylor and W. C. Gibson.