20 Sci-Fi Adventure Novels
Victorian Scientific Romances of Airships, Submarines, Lost Worlds, Future Wars, and Planetary VoyagesBy Edwin Lester Linden Arnold, Jules Verne, John Ames Mitchell, John Munro, Robert W. Chambers, Guy Thorne, David Franklin Powell, George Allan England, Garrett Putman Serviss, Mrs. Loudon, Charles B. Stilson, Charles Willing Beale, Luis Senarens, George Chetwynd Griffith, William Le Queux, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Romyn Dake
Length184h 48m
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20 Sci-Fi Adventure Novels surveys the formative borderlands of science fiction, where imperial romance, Gothic speculation, detective intrigue, utopian projection, and technological fantasy converged. Its narratives range from voyages through remote worlds and subterranean realms to visions of future warfare, altered bodies, lost civilizations, and scientific discovery. Alongside foundational tales of cosmic travel and uncanny invention, the volume preserves less frequently encountered experiments in sensation, satire, prophecy, and adventure, revealing how expansive the genre was before its modern institutionalization. The collection brings together writers working across the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a period marked by industrial acceleration, imperial anxiety, new communications technologies, and debates over evolution and social order. Figures associated with scientific romance stand beside popular journalists, fantasists, and innovators of Gothic and detective fiction. Collectively, these voices illuminate the international circulation of speculative ideas: the future becomes a site for both faith in progress and apprehension about its consequences. Their varied approaches enrich the anthology's portrait of early science fiction as a heterogeneous literary movement. Ideal for students, scholars, and adventurous general readers, this volume offers an unusually broad encounter with the genre's early vocabulary. Read together, its novels invite comparison across styles, nations, and imaginative futures, fostering a rewarding dialogue between scientific possibility, social critique, and narrative excitement.
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Publish dateJul 31, 2024
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Table of contents
1A Preliminary Dissertation on the Mechanisms of the Heavens (Annotated)
220 Sci-Fi Adventure Novels
3From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon
4From The Earth To The Moon
5CHAPTER XII. (pt. 1)
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6CHAPTER XII. (pt. 2)
7CHAPTER XXIII.
8INTRODUCTION.
9CHAPTER I.
10CHAPTER II.
11CHAPTER III.
12CHAPTER IV.
13CHAPTER V.
14CHAPTER VI.
15CHAPTER VII.
16CHAPTER VIII.
17CHAPTER IX.
18CHAPTER X.
19CHAPTER XI.
20CHAPTER XII.
21CHAPTER XIII.
22CHAPTER XXII.
23A Journey to the Center of the Earth & The Mysterious Island
24A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
25CHAPTER I. THE PROFESSOR AND HIS FAMILY
26CHAPTER II. A MYSTERY TO BE SOLVED AT ANY PRICE
27CHAPTER III. THE RUNIC WRITING EXERCISES THE PROFESSOR
28CHAPTER IV. THE ENEMY TO BE STARVED INTO SUBMISSION
29CHAPTER V. FAMINE, THEN VICTORY, FOLLOWED BY DISMAY
30CHAPTER VI. EXCITING DISCUSSIONS ABOUT AN UNPARALLELED ENTERPRISE
31CHAPTER VII. A WOMAN’S COURAGE
32CHAPTER VIII. SERIOUS PREPARATIONS FOR VERTICAL DESCENT
33CHAPTER IX. ICELAND! BUT WHAT NEXT?
34CHAPTER X. INTERESTING CONVERSATIONS WITH ICELANDIC SAVANTS
35CHAPTER XI. A GUIDE FOUND TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH
36CHAPTER XII. A BARREN LAND
37CHAPTER XIII. HOSPITALITY UNDER THE ARCTIC CIRCLE
38CHAPTER XIV. BUT ARCTICS CAN BE INHOSPITABLE, TOO
39CHAPTER XV. SNÆFELL AT LAST
40CHAPTER XVI. BOLDLY DOWN THE CRATER
41CHAPTER XVII. VERTICAL DESCENT
42CHAPTER XVIII. THE WONDERS OF TERRESTRIAL DEPTHS
43CHAPTER XIX. GEOLOGICAL STUDIES IN SITU
44CHAPTER XX. THE FIRST SIGNS OF DISTRESS
45CHAPTER XXI. COMPASSION FUSES THE PROFESSOR’S HEART
46CHAPTER XXII. TOTAL FAILURE OF WATER
47CHAPTER XXIII. WATER DISCOVERED
48CHAPTER XXIV. WELL SAID, OLD MOLE! CANST THOU WORK I’ THE GROUND SO FAST?
49CHAPTER XXV. DE PROFUNDIS
50CHAPTER XXVI. THE WORST PERIL OF ALL
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