§Personal Collection
AI Fiction 1815-1900: Artificial Life Before Computers
A 25-book lineage of nineteenth-century future shock: artificial people, automata, engineered bodies, utopian planning, industrial dystopia, space travel, media control, and evolutionary speculation before electronic computers.
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When the Sleeper Wakes
H. G. Wells, 1899, Adventure
“A man wakes into a future built on finance, spectacle, and managed crowds, giving the century a proto-media dystopia before electronics.”