Piše stipe Juras:
Poe je mnogim pričama započeo SF, no mnogi ovdje na forumu misle, ako su pročitali Gavrana, Crnog Mačka, Krabulju crvene smrti, Jamu i Njihalo, Annabel Lee i Pad kuće Usher, da znaju sve o Poeu. Ja, koji sam pročitao cijelu njegovu ostavštinu po nekoliko puta, te sva pisama koja je slao i primao, kao i njegove novinske članke, opet ne mogu reći da ga znam potpuno, jer tip je jebeni genij kakav se rijetko rađa, ili nikad više..... kako je i sam naveo u gavranu. Dakle, evo par izvadaka, kad se već traži...
- The Unparalled Adventures of One Hans Pfall - priča o putu na mjesec, daleko prije Julesa Vernea, te susretu sa alienima. Put opisuje na znanstveni način i prvi u književnosti podrobnije opisuje fenomen polarne svjetlosti. kao i susret s alienima.
- Melona Tatua, fantastična priča o putovanju balonom, koja alegorički govori o nepoznatoj sudbini ljudske budućnosti i ljudskoga društva. Prva neutopistička književna pomisao o tome uopće.
- M.S. Found in a Bottle - fantastična priča o Antartiku, napisana u vrijeme dok znanost nije znala još ništa precizno geografski vezano za Antartiku...
- The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar - Fantastična SF zamisao o mesmeriziranju (medicinskom hipnotiziranju) ljudi na samrti, kako bi, kad umru, mogi ostati u hipnotičkom stanju, nesvjesni da su umrli, te pričati sa onime tko ih je mesmerizirao, s one strane..... iz svijeta mrtvih. Opisano u tančine znanstveno, gotovo realistično.
- A Tale of the Ragged Mountains - Prva pomisao oipisivanja putovanja vremenskim strojem.
http://gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca/ragged.htm
- Ligeia - fantastična priča o reinkarnaciji i o ideji kako se smrt može nadići snagom vlastite volje...
- The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion - genijalna priča anđela, odnosno razgovor u kojima Poe čitateljima otkriva tajnu početka svcijeta, te njegova nestanka...
- The Colloquy of Monos and Una - razgovor ljudskih duša na nebu nakon velikog uništenja svijeta. priča u kojoj Poe čitateljima prikazuje zadnje trenutke planeta zemlje, od mjesec dana prije kada su opazili nešto sjajniji zvijezdu, dva tjedna prije kada su saznali da je to komet koji juri prema zemlji da je uništi, te zadnji dani, promjene klime na zemlji, pasnike ljudi i svega ostalog, do trenutka potpunog uništenja zemlje. Nešto pregenijalno i sanjarski za to doba kada je priča napisana.
- Maelzel's Chess Player - Poeov esej, koji prvi ikada govori o robotima i robotici, stoljećima daleko od Isac-a Asimova. (pošto ovo nije prevedeno na hrvatski, evo vam link, pa pogledajte priču na dvije web stranice...
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corrido ... elzel.html )
- Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pymm - ne bih mnogo opisivao ovaj njegov jedini roman, koji govori o putovanju na južni pol. Prpun je SF elemenata i priča o izgubljenim civilizacijama...
Učeni ljudi kažu ovako: Poe's several tales of balloon and sea travel approach the borderline of science fiction, dealing plausibly with scenes that were fantastic, or beyond the bounds of everyday reality.
Dakle, eto.... tražili ste, pa proučavajte.
EVO VAM MALO STRUČNE LITERATURE, DA NE MISLITE DA SEREM...
Edgar Allan Poe's mystery and science fiction are under acknowledged by realist literary critics. Poe was a pioneer in both genres, and together they constitute, in bulk, half of his short tales.
However, the favorite Poe works among realists include "Ligeia", "The Fall of the House of Usher", and "William Wilson". These are the Poe works that are closest to conventional realistic fiction: there is an emphasis in these works on psychological portraiture, and the study of human relationships. This is quite common, to emphasize those works in an author's canon that correspond to the conventions of conventional literary thought, and ignore the rest. There is no mystery in these works, and the fantasy, where it exists, is strictly supernatural, with no scientific overtones.
Poe's major contributions to the sf field include "Hans Pfaal", one of the first scientifically serious tales of space flight, "The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion", the first end of the world story, "The Colloquy of Monos and Una", a tale of survival after death; two cosmological tales, "The Power of Words" and "Mesmeric Revelation"; "A Tale of the Ragged Mountains", perhaps the first tale of physical time travel, and "Mellonta Tauta", the first depiction in fiction of a complex future society radically different from our own. The future depicted in "Mellonta Tauta" is not Utopian, like most earlier future tales, such as "L'An 2440" of Mercier, or disastrous, like Mary Shelley's "The Last Man", but simply very different. It incorporates many scientific advances, and social and historical changes, from the society of the present day. In addition, Poe's essay on "Maelzel's Chess Player" contains interesting ideas on automata, and perhaps influenced later writings on robots and computers. Poe's several tales of balloon and sea travel approach the borderline of science fiction, dealing plausibly with scenes that were fantastic, or beyond the bounds of everyday reality.
Poe's emphasis on scientific plausibility in "Hans Pfaal", and elsewhere, influenced not just the treatment of space travel, but all of science fiction. In many ways he is one of the main architects of sf as a genre. Despite the contributions of Lucian of Samos, Sir Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Peter Wilkins, Ludwig Holberg, Jonathan Swift, Mercier, E.T.A. Hoffmann, and Mary Shelley, Poe's works often read like the first real crystallization of sf in the form we know it today. Poe took a genre dominated by fantastic voyages, Utopias, sleepers into the future (Mercier, Washington Irving) and gothic scientific experimenters (Hoffmann, Godwin, Shelley & Hawthorne), and turned it into modern sf.
ules Verne's tales of "Extraordinary Voyages" were greatly inspired by Poe, as he himself acknowledged. The sort of scientifically plausible space travel of "Hans Pfall" and balloon flight in "The Balloon Hoax" are clearly the models for Verne. Edward Page Mitchell's works also seem very Poe inspired, even Poe derived. His remarkable tales of Automata, "The Ablest Man in the World" and "The Tachypomp", seem to be just a single step beyond "Maelzel's Chess Player". The Time Travel in "The Clock That Went Backwards" seems to be in the same mode as Poe's in "A Tale of the Ragged Mountains". In neither works by Poe or Mitchell, do the time travel stories add up to a logically consistent picture, by the standards of modern science fiction. In both, people from the present go back in time and turn into, or somehow coincide with, people from the past. These stories show a great deal of imagination, but they are not the sort of logically consistent time travel tale found in modern sf, apparently initiated by H. G. Wells' "The Time Machine".
H. P. Lovecraft always referred to his horror fiction as his "Poe stories", and wrote them in conscious imitation of Poe. The Poe story that most closely resembles Lovecraft's works in technique is "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar". Elements in common include the "popular" murmurings at the beginnings; the mysterious allusions to as yet unnamed horrors; the reference to "the facts as I understand them"; the dry, precise "scientific" tone throughout; the somewhat laborious descriptions, as if in a scientific document; explicit self referential mentioning of when the story crosses the line into unknown scientific frontiers; the revelation two thirds through the story of a hair raising situation of the scientific unknown; and the slow, deliberate, conscious build up to a final image of total horror, constructed like a climax in music.
Poe's influence can be seen on several later writers. Kipling's tale of a strange future world, "With the Night Mail" (1905), could have been inspired by "Mellonta Tauta". The giant balloons that dominate each story, and the replacement of democracy by autocracy are features in common. So is the wonderful air of "strangeness", the visiting of a future so different in many ways from the present. The strange "sound and light shows" of the storms in Kipling could have been inspired by the storm encountered by the balloon in "Hans Pfaal". (There is a similar storm in "The Fall of the House of Usher". The two storms are among Poe's best episodes.) Algis Budrys thinks that "With the Night Mail" possibly inspired Cordwainer Smith's tales of a very strange future. "Mellonta Tauta" also has a Smithian feel. If Borges were to write a "Precursors to Cordwainer Smith", as he did for Kafka, both "Mellonta Tauta" and "With the Night Mail" would figure prominently. Smith's works are among the masterpieces of modern sf, especially his short stories and novellas.
http://home.aol.com/mg4273/poe.htm
Njegovo zadnje djelo, nastalo neposredno prije smrti, poemu u prozi "Eureka" neću ni spominjati. Pročitao sam je samo na engleskom, te ju sam za sebe prevodim, da mi bude lakše, jer iako razumijem, prozu tečnije čitam i razumjem na hrvatskom. Ona se također može itekako tu svrstati i možda je njegovo najzrelije djelo ikad.
Mislim da će i ovaj link biti jako zanimljiv, gdje se Poe većinom navodi u kronici znanstvene fantastike u književnosti devetnaestog stoljeća.
http://books.google.com/books?q=A+Tale+ ... arch+Books
kliknite na naslovnicu knjige i pogledajte je cijelu u PDF-u...
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art24100.asp