England Invaded, a collection of imaginative fiction, including invasion literature

Invasion literature

Invasion literature was a historical literary genre most notable between 1871 and the First World War . The genre first became recognizable starting in Britain in 1871 with The Battle of Dorking, a fictional account of an invasion of England by Germany...

, from the Victorian and Edwardian periods edited by Michael Moorcock

Michael Moorcock

Michael John Moorcock is an English writer, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published a number of literary novels....

. Originally published in hardback by W.H. Allen in 1977 (ISBN 0-491-02191-7), it was re-issued as a paperback by Star in 1980 (ISBN 0-352-30694-7).

The collection is notable largely for the introduction by the noted Science fiction writer Michael Moorcock

Michael Moorcock

Michael John Moorcock is an English writer, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published a number of literary novels....

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Contents

• "Introduction", Michael Moorcock
  Michael Moorcock
  Michael John Moorcock is an English writer, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published a number of literary novels....
  
  
• "The Uses of Advertisement - an Aeroplane Adventure", Tristram Crutchley (Pearson’s Magazine, July 1909)
• "When the New Zealander Comes", Blyde Muddersnook (The Strand
  Strand Magazine
  The Strand Magazine was a monthly magazine composed of fictional stories and factual articles founded by George Newnes. It was first published in the United Kingdom from January 1891 to March 1950 running to 711 issues, though the first issue was on sale well before Christmas 1890.Its immediate...
  
  , September 1911)
• "The Monster of Lake LaMetrie
  The Monster of Lake LaMetrie
  "The Monster of Lake LaMetrie" is a short story by Wardon Allan Curtis. It was originally published in September 1899 in Pearson’s Magazine and collected in Michael Moorcock's anthology England Invaded.-Plot:...
  
  ", Wardon Allan Curtis (Pearson’s Magazine, September 1899)
• "The Abduction of Alexandra Seine", Fred C. Smale (The Harmsworth Magazine, November 1900)
• "Is the End of the World Near?", John Munro (Cassell’s, Jan. 1899)
• "When William Came
  When William Came
  When William Came: A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns is a novel written by British author Saki and published in 1913. It was set several years in what was then the future, after a war between Germany and Great Britain, which Germany won...
  
  ", Saki
  Saki
  Hector Hugh Munro , better known by the pen name Saki, and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirised Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy...
  
  

See also

• Before Armageddon
  Before Armageddon
  Before Armageddon: An Anthology of Victorian and Edwardian Imaginative Fiction Published Before 1914 is a collection of stories, including invasion literature, and one article, all edited by Michael Moorcock. Originally published in hardback by W.H...
  
  , a similar earlier collection edited by Moorcock