
INTERGALACTIC ENTERPRISE: 60+ Space Sci-Fi Novels in One Edition
Sixty Classic Tales of Lunar Voyages, Martian Civilizations, Cosmic Wars, and Alien WorldsBy H. G. Wells, Percy Greg, Jules Verne, David Lindsay, Edward Everett Hale, H. Beam Piper, Philip K. Dick, E. E. Smith, Murray Leinster, Fritz Leiber, Richard Stockham, Irving E. Cox, Frederik Pohl, Edwin Lester Arnold, John Jacob Astor, Gustavus W. PopeLength310h 57m
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INTERGALACTIC ENTERPRISE gathers more than sixty space-science-fiction novels into a capacious archive of cosmic adventure, speculative philosophy, technological romance, and planetary exploration. Ranging from proto-scientific romances and lost-world narratives to pulp-era serials, interstellar warfare, and unsettling psychological speculation, the volume maps changing imaginings of humanity's place in the universe. Its voyages beyond Earth, encounters with alien societies, and visions of future machinery reveal both the exhilaration and the anxieties attached to expansion, empire, scientific progress, and survival. Sweeping galactic quests and more inward, metaphysical odysseys alike make the collection a significant panorama of the genre's formative possibilities. The contributors span the late nineteenth century through the twentieth-century flowering of Anglo-American and European science fiction. Together, they connect foundational speculative writing with the adventure traditions of popular magazines and the conceptual experimentation associated with modern science fiction. Their varied national contexts, narrative temperaments, and scientific assumptions demonstrate how space fiction became a forum for debating evolution, social organization, warfare, religion, and human identity. Rather than presenting a single genealogy, the anthology preserves the productive tensions among utopian aspiration, imperial fantasy, technical wonder, and existential doubt. This edition is especially rewarding for readers, students, and scholars seeking to trace the development of space fiction across many voices in one volume. Its breadth invites comparison between styles, eras, and imagined futures, while fostering a rich dialogue about the cultural work performed by extraterrestrial worlds and intergalactic enterprise.
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GenreScience Fiction
Length310 hrs 57 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 19, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Collected Works of Harry Harrison (Illustrated Edition)
2Jules Verne
3From the Earth to the Moon
4Chapter I. The Gun Club.
5Chapter II. President Barbicane’s Communication.
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6Chapter III. Effect of President Barbicane’s Communication.
7Chapter IV. Answer from the Cambridge Observatory.
8Chapter V. The Romance of the Moon.
9Chapter VI. What it is Impossible to Ignore and What is No Longer Allowed to Be Believed in the United States.
10Chapter VII. The Hymn of the Cannonball.
11Chapter VIII. History of the Cannon.
12Chapter IX. The Question of Powders.
13Chapter X. One Enemy Against Twenty-Five Millions of Friends.
14Chapter XI. Florida and Texas.
15Chapter XII. “Urbi et Orbi.”
16Chapter XIII. Stony Hill.
17Chapter XIV. Pickaxe and Trowel.
18Chapter XV. The Ceremony of the Casting.
19Chapter XVI. The Columbiad.
20Chapter XVII. A Telegram.
21Chapter XVIII. The Passenger of the Atlanta.
22Chapter XIX. A Meeting.
23Chapter XX. Thrust and Parry.
24Chapter XXI. How a Frenchman Settles an Affair.
25Chapter XXII. The New Citizen of the United States.
26Chapter XXIII. The Projectile Compartment.
27Chapter XXIV. The Telescope of the Rocky Mountains.
28Chapter XXV. Final Details.
29Chapter XXVI. Fire!
30Chapter XXVII. Cloudy Weather.
31Chapter XXVIII. A New Star.
32Around the Moon
33Preliminary Chapter, Resuming the First Part of the Work and Serving as an Introduction to the Second.
34Chapter I. From 10 P.M. to 10 46' 40''.
35Chapter II. The First Half Hour.
36Chapter III. They Make Themselves at Home and Feel Quite Comfortable.
37Chapter IV. A Chapter for the Cornell Girls.
38Chapter V. The Colds of Space.
39Chapter VI. Instructive Conversation.
40Chapter VII. A High Old Time.
41Chapter VIII. The Neutral Point.
42Chapter IX. A Little Off the Track.
43Chapter X. The Observers of the Moon.
44Chapter XI. Fact and Fancy.
45Chapter XII. A Bird's Eye View of the Lunar Mountains.
46Chapter XIII. Lunar Landscapes
47Chapter XIV. A Night of Fifteen Days.
48Chapter XV. Glimpses at the Invisible.
49Chapter XVI. The Southern Hemisphere.
50Chapter XVII. Tycho.