
60 Space Sci-Fi Books
A Classic Anthology of Lunar Voyages, Martian Adventures, Space Opera, and Speculative WonderBy Jules Verne, Percy Greg, David Lindsay, Edward Everett Hale, John Jacob Astor, Murray Leinster, H. Beam Piper, Frederik Pohl, Fritz Leiber, Irving E. Cox, Philip K. Dick, Richard Stockham, H. G. Wells, E. E. Smith, Edwin Lester Arnold, Gustavus W. PopeLength310h 57m
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60 Space Sci-Fi Books surveys the expansive imaginative territory of space fiction, from proto-scientific romance and planetary adventure to interstellar empire, alien encounter, technological speculation, and existential estrangement. Its varied forms—novellas, short stories, serial-style adventures, satirical fables, and speculative romances—trace changing conceptions of the cosmos across generations. Standout visions of voyages beyond Earth, remote worlds, and futures transformed by science reveal how space became both a setting for wonder and a laboratory for social thought. The volume brings together foundational figures including Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Edward Everett Hale, and Edwin Lester Arnold with major twentieth-century innovators such as E. E. Smith, Murray Leinster, Fritz Leiber, Frederik Pohl, H. Beam Piper, and Philip K. Dick. Their collective work spans the scientific romance, pulp-era space opera, Golden Age speculation, and the more skeptical, psychologically charged currents that anticipated New Wave concerns. Across these traditions, the contributors test imperial ambition, scientific progress, human adaptability, and the limits of perception. Ideal for students, scholars, and devoted readers of speculative fiction, this capacious anthology offers an unusually rich comparative encounter with space literature's development. It invites readers to follow recurring motifs across distinct styles and eras, while appreciating the productive dialogue between adventure, satire, philosophy, and scientific imagination.
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GenreScience Fiction
Length310 hrs 57 mins
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Publish dateDec 21, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Barbarians from a Far Planet: Tom Godwin Boxed Set (Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)
260 Space Sci-Fi Books
3Jules Verne
4From the Earth to the Moon
5Chapter I. The Gun Club.
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6Chapter II. President Barbicane’s Communication.
7Chapter III. Effect of President Barbicane’s Communication.
8Chapter IV. Answer from the Cambridge Observatory.
9Chapter V. The Romance of the Moon.
10Chapter VI. What it is Impossible to Ignore and What is No Longer Allowed to Be Believed in the United States.
11Chapter VII. The Hymn of the Cannonball.
12Chapter VIII. History of the Cannon.
13Chapter IX. The Question of Powders.
14Chapter X. One Enemy Against Twenty-Five Millions of Friends.
15Chapter XI. Florida and Texas.
16Chapter XII. “Urbi et Orbi.”
17Chapter XIII. Stony Hill.
18Chapter XIV. Pickaxe and Trowel.
19Chapter XV. The Ceremony of the Casting.
20Chapter XVI. The Columbiad.
21Chapter XVII. A Telegram.
22Chapter XVIII. The Passenger of the Atlanta.
23Chapter XIX. A Meeting.
24Chapter XX. Thrust and Parry.
25Chapter XXI. How a Frenchman Settles an Affair.
26Chapter XXII. The New Citizen of the United States.
27Chapter XXIII. The Projectile Compartment.
28Chapter XXIV. The Telescope of the Rocky Mountains.
29Chapter XXV. Final Details.
30Chapter XXVI. Fire!
31Chapter XXVII. Cloudy Weather.
32Chapter XXVIII. A New Star.
33Around the Moon
34Preliminary Chapter, Resuming the First Part of the Work and Serving as an Introduction to the Second.
35Chapter I. From 10 P.M. to 10 46' 40''.
36Chapter II. The First Half Hour.
37Chapter III. They Make Themselves at Home and Feel Quite Comfortable.
38Chapter IV. A Chapter for the Cornell Girls.
39Chapter V. The Colds of Space.
40Chapter VI. Instructive Conversation.
41Chapter VII. A High Old Time.
42Chapter VIII. The Neutral Point.
43Chapter IX. A Little Off the Track.
44Chapter X. The Observers of the Moon.
45Chapter XI. Fact and Fancy.
46Chapter XII. A Bird's Eye View of the Lunar Mountains.
47Chapter XIII. Lunar Landscapes
48Chapter XIV. A Night of Fifteen Days.
49Chapter XV. Glimpses at the Invisible.
50Chapter XVI. The Southern Hemisphere.