LOST WORLDS: Ultimate Sci-Fi Boxed Set

Classic Tales of Hidden Continents, Subterranean Civilizations, Prehistoric Peril, and Speculative WonderBy H. G. Wells, Abraham Merritt, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, George MacDonald, H. Rider Haggard, Gertrude Barrows Bennett, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Francis Bacon, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne

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LOST WORLDS: Ultimate Sci-Fi Boxed Set traces the enduring fascination of speculative fiction with hidden continents, subterranean realms, vanished civilizations, and futures made strange by scientific discovery. Ranging from proto-scientific utopia and Gothic romance to imperial adventure, proto–science fiction, and modernist-inflected fantasy, the collection reveals how the "lost world" became a flexible literary laboratory. Tales of remote plateaus, ancient survivals, inaccessible islands, and technologically transformed societies stand out not merely as escapist adventures, but as searching meditations on knowledge, evolution, empire, and human limits. Its contributors span several centuries and national traditions, joining foundational figures in scientific romance with writers associated with fantasy, adventure fiction, detective literature, and speculative modernism. Their varied careers illuminate the genre's development from Baconian inquiry and Vernean technological imagination through late-Victorian romance and twentieth-century anxieties about civilization. Together, these voices expose the lost-world narrative's cultural entanglements: its wonder and ingenuity, but also its negotiations of colonial exploration, racialized difference, gender, and the unsettling possibility that progress may conceal regression. This boxed set is especially rewarding for readers seeking a capacious introduction to the roots of science fiction and fantasy. It offers a rare opportunity to compare divergent styles and ideological horizons within one volume, inviting critical attention to the conversations, tensions, and transformations linking its many imagined worlds.

Futuristic Adventure Dystopian Exploration Political Intrigue Thriller Mystery Sword & Sorcery Space Travel Post-Apocalyptic

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1CLOWNS AND CRIMINALS (Thriller Classics Series) (Annotated)

2H. G. Wells

3The Shape of Things To Come: Introduction The Dream Book of Dr. Philip Raven

4Book the First Today and Tomorrow: The Age of Frustration Dawns

51. A Chronological Note

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62. How the Idea and Hope of the Modern World State First Appeared

73. The Accumulating Disproportions of the Old Order

84. Early Attempts to Understand and Deal with These Disproportions; The Criticisms of Karl Marx and Henry George

95. The Way in Which Competition and Monetary Inefficiency Strained the Old Order

106. The Paradox of Over-Production and Its Relation to War

117. The Great War of 1914-1918

128. The Impulse to Abolish War; The Episode of the Ford Peace Ship

139. The Direct Action of the Armament Industries in Maintaining War Stresses

1410. Versailles: Seed Bed of Disasters

1511. The Impulse to Abolish War: Why the League of Nations Failed to Pacify the World

1612. The Breakdown of “Finance” and Social Morale after Versailles

1713. 1933: “Progress” Comes to a Halt

18Book the Second The Days After Tomorrow: The Age of Frustration

191. The London Conference: the Crowning Failure of the Old Governments; The Spread of Dictatorships and Fascisms

202. The Sloughing of the Old Educational Tradition

213. Disintegration and Crystallization in the Social Magma. The Gangster and Militant Political Organizations

224. Changes in War Practice after the World War

235. The Fading Vision of a World Pax: Japan Reverts to Warfare

246. The Western Grip on Asia Relaxes

257. The Modern State and Germany

268. A Note on Hate and Cruelty

279. The Last War Cyclone, 1940-50

2810. The Raid of the Germs

2911. Europe in 1960

3012. America in Liquidation

31Book the Third The World Renascence: The Birth of the Modern State

321. The Plan of the Modern State Is Worked Out

332. Thought and Action: the New Model of Revolution

343. The Technical Revolutionary

354. Prophets, Pioneers, Fanatics and Murdered Men

365. The First Conference at Basra: 1965

376. The Growth of Resistance to the Sea and Air Ways Control

387. Intellectual Antagonism to the Modern State

398. The Second Conference at Basra, 1978

409. “Three Courses of Action”

4110. The Life-Time Plan

4211. The Real Struggle for Government Begins

43Book the Fourth The Modern State Militant

441. Gap in the Text

452. Melodramatic Interlude

463. Futile Insurrection

474. The Schooling of Mankind

485. The Text Resumes: The Tyranny of the Second Council

496. Æsthetic Frustration: The Note Books of Ariston Theotocopulos

507. The Declaration of Mégève

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