The Battle of Dorking

The Battle of Dorking: Reminiscences of a Volunteer
	Cover of the 1914 edition
Author	George Tomkyns Chesney
Language	English
Genre	Invasion literature, Science fiction
Publisher	Blackwood (UK); Lippincott, Grambo & Co (US) (reprint Oxford Press 1971)
Publication date	1871
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print (hardcover & paperback)
Pages	95
ISBN	0-19-283285-9

The Battle of Dorking: Reminiscences of a Volunteer is an 1871 novella by George Tomkyns Chesney, starting the genre of invasion literature and an important precursor of science fiction. Written just after the Prussian victory in the Franco-Prussian War, it describes an invasion of Britain by a German-speaking country referred to in oblique terms as The Other Power or The Enemy.

^ Canavan, Gerry (2018). The Cambridge History of Science Fiction. Cambridge University Press. p. 58. ISBN 978-1-31-669437-4

[1] Canavan, Gerry (2018). The Cambridge History of Science Fiction. Cambridge University Press. p. 58. ISBN 978-1-31-669437-4

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