Tales of Wonder

by Mark Twain and David Ketterer

Book Overview

Mark Twain's unsettling imagination and passionate curiosity roamed far and wide--racing across microscopic worlds and interstellar voids, leaping ahead to fearful futures, and speculating on dazzling inventions to come. Tales of Wonder features some of the most notable but little-known science fiction available, penned by the famed American humorist and writer. With characteristic wit and acuity, Twain embarks on an epic journey into a drop...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803294522
• ISBN13: 9780803294523
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 387 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A real surprise for me

I knew Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, but that was all I would have associated with Mark Twain and Science Fiction. Then this book, from the wonderful Bison Frontiers of Imagination series, caught my eye. I try to purchase any of the Bison books that are available inexpensively and seem interesting. Anyway, combine predictions of future Utopias (think H.G. Wells) with Twain's populism and wit, add in some extrapolated technologies (a la Verne), and you have the beginnings of a picture. This is actually the second reminder than Twain is far more than Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, and the riverboat captain. While I was living in Hawaii I had the good fortune to see mention of Twain's visit and read the wonderful Mark Twain in Hawaii.