author : I. O. Evans

Contents (possible spoilers)

• Lucian de Samosata. (from) A True Story. 170

• Francis Bacon. (from) The New Atlantis. 1627

• Mary Shelley. (from)Frankenstein. 1818

• Jules Verne. (from) Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea. 1870

• Walter Scott. (from)Count Robert of Paris. 1832

• Plato. (from) The Timaeus and Critias

• Johannes Kepler. (summary of) Somnium. 1634

• Dean Swift. (from)Gulliver's Travels. 1726

• Robert Paltock. (from) The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins. 1751

• Voltaire. Micromegas. 1752

• Samuel Butler. (from) Erewhon. 1872

• Edgar Allan Poe. The Balloon Hoax