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Future Perfect

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  • 1955 first published
  • 402 pages
  • 15 editions
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Future Perfect is a 1955 gothic fiction and horror novel by H. Bruce Franklin, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe. The story is set in Padua and India, in the 19th century. It features Aylmer, Georgiana and Giacomo Rappaccini. Key subjects include manners and customs, Mesmerism, hoaxes and Narration.

It has been published in 15 editions.

It runs to roughly 402 pages — 7–8 hours of reading at an average pace.

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

Era

Characters

Subjects

  • Manners and customs
  • Short story
  • Mesmerism
  • Suspense
  • Horror
  • Hoaxes
  • Narration
  • Pseudoscience
  • Hypnagogia
  • Animal magnetism
  • Hypnotism
  • Tuberculosis
  • Gothic fiction
  • Science fiction
  • American Science fiction
  • History and criticism

Quick answers

Who wrote Future Perfect?

Future Perfect was written by H. Bruce Franklin, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1955.

What genre is Future Perfect?

It is usually shelved as Gothic Fiction and Horror.

How long is Future Perfect?

The median edition has 402 pages, about 7–8 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Future Perfect?

Readers who like it often enjoy The Harbrace Anthology of Short Fiction -- Second Edition, The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural and The Penguin Book of Horror Stories.

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