Description: List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Latin American Science Fiction Discovers Its Roots DISPLACEMENT IN SPACE AND TIME: THE LATIN AMERICAN UTOPIA AND DYSTOPIA Fsforos-Cerillos, "Mexico in the Year 1970" Joaquim Felcio dos Santos, Pages from the History of Brazil Written in the Year 2 Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg, The Marvelous Journey of Mr. Nic-Nac . . . Eduardo de Ezcurra, In the Thirtieth Century Godofredo Barnsley, So Paulo in the Year 2 . . . Eduardo Urzaiz, Eugenia THE IMPACT OF DARWINISM: CIVILIZATION AND BARBARISM MEET EVOLUTION AND DEVOLUTION Augusto Emlio Zaluar, Doctor Benignus Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg, Two Factions Struggle for Life Leopoldo Lugones, "Essay on a Cosmogony in Ten Lessons," "The Origin of the Flood," "Yzur" Joaquim Manuel de Macedo, "The End of the World" Alusio Azevedo, "Demons" Amado Nervo, "The Last War" Martn Luis Guzmn, "How the War Ended in 1917" STRANGE FORCES: EXPLORING THE LIMITS OF SCIENCE Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg, Two Factions Struggle for Life [coda] Carlos Olivera, "Death at a Fixed Hour" Leopoldo Lugones, "The Omega Force," "Psychon," "An Inexplicable Phenomenon," "Viola Acherontia," "Metamusic" Miguel Can, "The Harmonies of Light" Juana Manuela Gorriti, "He Who Listens May Hear--To His Regret: Confidence of a Confidence" Pedro Castera, "A Celestial Journey," Querens Amado Nervo, The Soul-Giver, "The Sixth Sense" THE DOUBLE: FROM SCIENCE TO TECHNOLOGY Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg, "Horacio Kalibang or The Automatons" Alejandro Cuevas, "The Apparatus of Doctor Tolimn" Horacio Quiroga, The Artificial Man, "The Portrait," "The Vampire" Conclusion: A Global Genre in the Periphery Chronology: Latin American Science Fiction through 1920 Notes Bibliography Primary Texts Secondary Sources Index

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