Brett M. Rogers is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Puget Sound. Benjamin Eldon Stevens is Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Hollins University.

a stimulating and provoking collection of essays.

• Preface ; Introduction: The True History of The Future (and Its Future) ; Brett M. Rogers ; Benjamin Eldon Stevens ; Part I: SF's Rosy-Fingered Dawn ; 1. The Lunar Setting of Johannes Kepler's Somnium, Science Fiction's Missing Link ; Dean Swinford ; 2. Lucretius, Lucan, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ; Jesse Weiner ; 3. Virgil in Jules Verne's Journey to The Center of The Earth ; Benjamin Eldon Stevens ; 4. Mr. Lucian in Suburbia: Links between The True History and The First Men in The Moon ; Antony Keen ; Part II: SF 'Classics' ; 5. A Complex Oedipus: The Tragedy of Edward Morbius ; Gregory S. Bucher ; 6. Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz, The Great Year, and The Ages of Man ; Erik Grayson ; 7. Time and Self-Referentiality in The Iliad and Frank Herbert's Dune ; Joel Christensen ; 8. Disability as Rhetorical Trope in Classical Myth and Blade Runner ; Rebecca Raphael ; Part III: Classics in Space ; 9. Moral and Mortal in Star Trek: The Original Series ; George Kovacs ; 10. Hybrids and Homecomings in The Odyssey and Alien Resurrection ; Brett M. Rogers ; 11. Classical Antiquity and Western Identity in Battlestar Galactica ; Vincent Tomasso ; Part IV: Ancient Classics for a Future Generation? ; 12. Revised Iliadic Epiphanies in Dan Simmons' Ilium ; Gael Grobety ; 13. Refiguring the Roman Empire in The Hunger Games Trilogy ; Marian Makins ; 14. Jonathan Hickman's Pax Romana and The End of Antiquity ; C. W. Marshall ; Appendix ; Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing ; Robert W. Cape, Jr. ; Works Cited

Brett M. Rogers is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Puget Sound. Benjamin Eldon Stevens is Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Hollins University.

a stimulating and provoking collection of essays.

• Preface ; Introduction: The True History of The Future (and Its Future) ; Brett M. Rogers ; Benjamin Eldon Stevens ; Part I: SF's Rosy-Fingered Dawn ; 1. The Lunar Setting of Johannes Kepler's Somnium, Science Fiction's Missing Link ; Dean Swinford ; 2. Lucretius, Lucan, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ; Jesse Weiner ; 3. Virgil in Jules Verne's Journey to The Center of The Earth ; Benjamin Eldon Stevens ; 4. Mr. Lucian in Suburbia: Links between The True History and The First Men in The Moon ; Antony Keen ; Part II: SF 'Classics' ; 5. A Complex Oedipus: The Tragedy of Edward Morbius ; Gregory S. Bucher ; 6. Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz, The Great Year, and The Ages of Man ; Erik Grayson ; 7. Time and Self-Referentiality in The Iliad and Frank Herbert's Dune ; Joel Christensen ; 8. Disability as Rhetorical Trope in Classical Myth and Blade Runner ; Rebecca Raphael ; Part III: Classics in Space ; 9. Moral and Mortal in Star Trek: The Original Series ; George Kovacs ; 10. Hybrids and Homecomings in The Odyssey and Alien Resurrection ; Brett M. Rogers ; 11. Classical Antiquity and Western Identity in Battlestar Galactica ; Vincent Tomasso ; Part IV: Ancient Classics for a Future Generation? ; 12. Revised Iliadic Epiphanies in Dan Simmons' Ilium ; Gael Grobety ; 13. Refiguring the Roman Empire in The Hunger Games Trilogy ; Marian Makins ; 14. Jonathan Hickman's Pax Romana and The End of Antiquity ; C. W. Marshall ; Appendix ; Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing ; Robert W. Cape, Jr. ; Works Cited