Introduction: Latin American Science Fiction Discovers Its Roots
CHAPTER 1. Displacement in Space and Time: The Latin American Utopia and Dystopia
Fósforos-Cerillos, “Mexico in the Year 1970” / Joaquim Felício dos Santos, Pages from the History of Brazil Written in the Year 2000 / Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg, The Marvelous Journey of Mr. Nic-Nac . . . / Eduardo de Ezcurra, In the Thirtieth Century / Godofredo Barnsley, São Paulo in the Year 2000 . . . / Eduardo Urzaiz, Eugenia
CHAPTER 2. The Impact of Darwinism: Civilization and Barbarism Meet Evolution and Devolution
Augusto Emílio 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” / Aluísio Azevedo, “Demons” / Amado Nervo, “The Last War” / Martín Luis Guzmán, “How the War Ended in 1917”
CHAPTER 3. 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 Cané, “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”
CHAPTER 4. The Double: From Science to Technology
Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg, “Horacio Kalibang or The Automatons” / Alejandro Cuevas, “The Apparatus of Doctor Tolimán” / Horacio Quiroga, The Artificial Man, “The Portrait,” “The Vampire”
Conclusion: A Global Genre in the Periphery