BEYOND SPACESHIP EARTH: 50+ Sci-Fi Books in One Volume
A Treasury of Victorian Scientific Romance, Martian Voyages, Lost Worlds, and Cosmic AdventureBy H. G. Wells, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Jules Verne, Otis Adelbert Kline, Edgar Wallace, Percy Greg, David Lindsay, Edward Everett Hale, Malcolm Jameson
Length167h 16m
About this audiobook
BEYOND SPACESHIP EARTH gathers more than fifty works into a capacious archive of early and classic science fiction, tracing the genre's fascination with interplanetary travel, technological transformation, utopian design, catastrophe, and the limits of human knowledge. Its range extends from scientific romance and adventure narrative to philosophical fantasy, social satire, cosmic horror, and proto-space opera. Voyages beyond Earth, encounters with unfamiliar civilizations, and speculative futures form a dialogue in which the marvels of invention are repeatedly tested against ethical and political consequence. The volume brings together writers central to the international formation of speculative literature. Jules Verne's technological imagination and H. G. Wells's social critique stand alongside the planetary romance of Otis Adelbert Kline and Stanley G. Weinbaum, the visionary metaphysics associated with David Lindsay, and the adventurous, reformist, and apocalyptic modes cultivated by Percy Greg, Edward Everett Hale, Edgar Wallace, and Malcolm Jameson. Across Victorian, Edwardian, and pulp-era contexts, these voices reveal science fiction as a field shaped by imperial expansion, scientific optimism, modern anxiety, and dreams of other worlds. Ideal for students, scholars, and adventurous general readers, this anthology offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare formative styles and competing visions of humanity's future. Read together, its many narratives illuminate both the genre's historical development and its enduring capacity to question Earth-bound assumptions.
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GenreScience Fiction
Length167 hrs 16 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 5, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Complete Sci-Fi Works of Olaf Stapledon (Annotated)
2H. G. Wells
3The War of the Worlds
4Book One. The Coming of the Martians
5Chapter One. The Eve of the War
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6Chapter Two. The Falling Star
7Chapter Three. On Horsell Common
8Chapter Four. The Cylinder Opens
9Chapter Five. The HeatRay
10Chapter Six. The HeatRay in the Chobham Road
11Chapter Seven. How I Reached Home
12Chapter Eight. Friday Night
13Chapter Nine. The Fighting Begins
14Chapter Ten. In the Storm
15Chapter Eleven. At the Window
16Chapter Twelve. What I Saw of the Destruction
17Chapter Thirteen. How I Fell in with the Curate
18Chapter Fourteen. In London
19Chapter Fifteen. What Had Happened in Surrey
20Chapter Sixteen. The Exodus from London
21Chapter Seventeen. The “Thunder Child”
22Book Two. The Earth under the Martians
23Chapter One. Under Foot
24Chapter Two. What We Saw from the Ruined House
25Chapter Three. The Days of Imprisonment
26Chapter Four. The Death of the Curate
27Chapter Five. The Stillness
28Chapter Six. The Work of Fifteen Days
29Chapter Seven. The Man on Putney Hill
30Chapter Eight. Dead London
31Chapter Nine. Wreckage
32Chapter Ten. The Epilogue
33The Shape of Things To Come: Introduction The Dream Book of Dr. Philip Raven
34Book the First Today and Tomorrow: The Age of Frustration Dawns
351. A Chronological Note
362. How the Idea and Hope of the Modern World State First Appeared
373. The Accumulating Disproportions of the Old Order
384. Early Attempts to Understand and Deal with These Disproportions; The Criticisms of Karl Marx and Henry George
395. The Way in Which Competition and Monetary Inefficiency Strained the Old Order
406. The Paradox of Over-Production and Its Relation to War
417. The Great War of 1914-1918
428. The Impulse to Abolish War; The Episode of the Ford Peace Ship
439. The Direct Action of the Armament Industries in Maintaining War Stresses
4410. Versailles: Seed Bed of Disasters
4511. The Impulse to Abolish War: Why the League of Nations Failed to Pacify the World
4612. The Breakdown of “Finance” and Social Morale after Versailles
4713. 1933: “Progress” Comes to a Halt
48Book the Second The Days After Tomorrow: The Age of Frustration
491. The London Conference: the Crowning Failure of the Old Governments; The Spread of Dictatorships and Fascisms
502. The Sloughing of the Old Educational Tradition
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