Science Fiction of the British Empire: A Victorian-Edwardian Anthology (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798684230356)

The British Empire was largely accidental. During the 17th and 18th centuries, a small island nation accrued a patchwork scattering of commercial monopolies, isolated ports, utopian experiments, and surrendered colonies. By the time of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, the British Empire was the largest the world had ever seen. The shape of the Empire was amorphous, its machinery unwieldy, its values contradictory, and its legacy ambivalent. Science fiction developed along with it, to celebrate and critique the imperial project. This volume features rarely reprinted stories from across the United Kingdom, India, Bangladesh, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, including the "Poet of the Empire" Rudyard Kipling, Indian nationalist Shoshee Chunder Dutt, New Zealand Prime Minister Sir Julius Vogel, Catholic theologian G.K. Chesterton, Muslim feminist Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain, Canadian satirist Stephen Leacock, military alarmist George Tomkyns Chesney, and "Jeeves and Wooster" creator P.G. Wodehouse.

Author: George Tomkyns Chesney, P. G. Wodehouse, Julius Vogel
ISBN-10: 8684230353
ISBN-13: 9798684230356
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 09/09/2020
Pages: 774
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.24lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.54d