20+ Vintage Sci-Fi Novels
Foundational Tales of Artificial Life, Lost Worlds, Alien Invasions, Utopias, and Early Space AdventureBy Mary Shelley, Jonathan Swift, Jules Verne, Mrs. Loudon, John Ames Mitchell, H. G. Wells, John Munro, Robert W. Chambers, Guy Thorne, David Franklin Powell, George Allan England, Garrett Putman Serviss, Edward Bellamy, Edwin Lester Linden Arnold, Homer Eon Flint, Robert Cromie
Length182h 45m
About this audiobook
20+ Vintage Sci-Fi Novels surveys the formative centuries of speculative fiction, assembling Gothic experiment, satirical voyage, utopian and dystopian romance, scientific adventure, invasion narrative, and planetary quest. Across its expansive range, the volume traces how fiction made the future legible through strange machines, altered societies, subterranean worlds, and encounters with the alien. Landmark visions of artificial life, social engineering, apocalyptic transformation, and interplanetary travel sit beside less frequently anthologized popular romances, revealing the genre's rich dialogue between literary ambition and mass entertainment. The contributors span British, American, and European traditions from the eighteenth through early twentieth centuries, a period in which Enlightenment satire, Romantic unease, Victorian scientific culture, imperial adventure, and Progressive-era social critique converged. Their varied professional and literary backgrounds—novelists, journalists, reform-minded utopians, and writers of popular fiction—supply competing accounts of technology's promise and peril. Together, these voices illuminate the emergence of science fiction not as a single lineage but as a contested field shaped by industrial modernity, colonial imagination, gendered anxieties, and dreams of collective progress. Recommended for students, historians of genre, and adventurous general readers, this collection offers an unusually broad encounter with science fiction's early vocabulary. It invites comparison across styles and eras while providing a valuable education in the assumptions, inventions, and ethical debates that continue to animate speculative literature.
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GenreScience Fiction
Length182 hrs 45 mins
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Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Sci-Fi Boxed Set: Garrett P. Serviss Edition - Space Adventure & Alien Invasion Tales (Annotated)
26Chapter 15
220+ Vintage Sci-Fi Novels
27Chapter 16
3Frankenstein
28Chapter 17
4PREFACE
29Chapter 18
5VOLUME ONE (pt. 1)
30Chapter 19
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6VOLUME ONE (pt. 2)
31Chapter 20
7VOLUME TWO
32Chapter 21
8VOLUME THREE (pt. 1)
33Chapter 22
9VOLUME THREE (pt. 2)
34Chapter 23
10The Last Man
35Chapter 24
11Introduction
36Chapter 25
12Chapter 1
37Chapter 26
13Chapter 2
38Chapter 27
14Chapter 3
39Chapter 28
15Chapter 4
40Chapter 29
16Chapter 5
41Chapter 30
17Chapter 6
42Gulliver's Travels
18Chapter 7
43A Letter from Captain Gulliver to his Cousin Sympson.
19Chapter 8
44Part I
20Chapter 9
45Chapter II.
21Chapter 10
46Chapter III.
22Chapter 11
47Chapter IV.
23Chapter 12
48Chapter V.
24Chapter 13
49Chapter VI.
25Chapter 14
50Chapter VII.
The Women of Horror: 30 Timeless Horror Classics by Female AuthorsMary Shelley, Ann Ward Radcliffe, Francis Marion Crawford, Marie Corelli, Carolyn Wells, S. Baring-Gould, Emily Brontë, Mrs. Loudon, Baroness Orczy, Marie Conway Oemler, Eliza Parsons, Eleanor Sleath, Jane Austen, Clara Reeve, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth, Duchess, Louisa May Alcott, George Sand, Mrs. Oliphant, Mary Noailles Murfree, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Amelia B. Edwards, Edith Wharton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Alice Jane Chandler Webster, E. Nesbit256h 50m$0.99
In the Dawn of Science Fiction: 22 Groundbreaking NovelsMary Shelley, Jonathan Swift, Jules Verne, Mrs. Loudon, John Ames Mitchell, H. G. Wells, John Munro, Robert W. Chambers, Guy Thorne, David Franklin Powell, George Allan England, Garrett Putman Serviss, Edward Bellamy, Edwin Lester Linden Arnold, Homer Eon Flint, Robert Cromie182h 45m$0.99
Frankenstein (The Complete Uncensored 1818 Edition) (Annotated)Mary Shelley9h 36m$2 · $0.00
MARY SHELLEY Premium Collection: Novels & Short Stories, Plays, Travel Books & Biography (Annotated)Mary Shelley163h 42m$2 · $0.00
The Complete Novels of Mary Shelley (Annotated)Mary Shelley128h 30m$2 · $0.00
The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck (Annotated)Mary Shelley21h 33m$2 · $0.00
The Collected Works of Mary Shelley (Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)Mary Shelley167h 16m$2 · $0.00
The Last Man (Annotated)Mary Shelley21h 5m$2 · $0.00
The Last Man (Dystopian Novel) (Annotated)Mary Shelley20h 58m$2 · $0.00
Frankenstein & St. Irvyne (Annotated)Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley12h 45m$2 · $0.00
Frankenstein o el moderno Prometeo (Anotado)Mary Shelley9h 11m$0.99 · $0.00
Frankenstein & The Last Man (Annotated)Mary Shelley28h 26m$2 · $0.00
Frankenstein (The Uncensored 1818 Edition) (Annotated)Mary Shelley9h 25m$3 · $0.00
Mary Shelley: The Complete Novels (The Giants of Literature - Book 27) (Annotated)Mary Shelley128h 26m$2 · $0.00
Valperga (Annotated)Mary Shelley18h 40m$2 · $0.00
La noche de los monstruosMary Shelley, Lord Byron, John William Polidori12h 53m$9 · $0.00
FrankensteinMary Shelley7h 49m$12 · $0.00
FrankensteinMary Shelley7h 56m$1 · $0.00
The Last ManMary Shelley18h 57m$2 · $0.00
Sons of War 4: SoldiersNicholas Sansbury Smith, Tom Abrahams12h 54m$25
Hell to PayMichael Anderle7h 50m$20
A Civil CampaignLois McMaster Bujold18h 49m$32
Warrior’s FateWalt Browning10h 37m$20
The RisenErica Stevens10h 17m$20
100 Years to ExtinctionPeter Solomon14h 48m$27
Amazing Tales Volume 1Max Williams et al.4h 5m$2.30
H. G. Wells: Collected Works (Annotated)H. G. Wells427h 28m$2 · $0.00
Scars of RebellionAnthony J. Melchiorri12h 56m$25
The Galaxy, and the Ground WithinBecky Chambers9h 56m$29 · $0.00
AvengerBlair Howard9h 54m$23
Core’s AttackS.E. Smith5h 57m$17
TimelessR. A. Salvatore12h 30m$33 · $0.00
The Extinction New Zealand Series Box SetAdrian J. Smith23h 7m$30
The Quantum ChainNick Jones12h 59m$23
Thud!Terry Pratchett12h 29m$8 · $0.00
We’re AliveKc Wayland5h 10m$15
Science Fiction & Fantasy CollectionH. P. Lovecraft16h 32m$2 · $0.00
GhostdriftSuzanne Palmer13h 38m$27
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