SF Boxed Set: 140+ Intergalactic Action Adventures, Dystopian Novels & Lost World Classics
Foundational Tales of Lost Worlds, Dystopias and Interplanetary AdventureBy Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, George MacDonald, Percy Greg, Jack London, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ernest Bramah, Jonathan Swift, Cleveland Moffett, William Morris, Anthony Trollope, Richard Jefferies, Samuel Butler, David Lindsay, Edward Everett Hale, Edward Bellamy, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edgar Wallace, Francis Bacon, Robert Cromie, Abraham Merritt, Ignatius Donnelly, Owen Gregory, H. G. Wells, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Fred M. White, H. P. Lovecraft, Garrett P. Serviss, Henry Rider Haggard, Mary Shelley, Malcolm Jameson, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Otis Adelbert Kline, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, Edwin A. Abbott, Arthur Dudley Vinton, Gertrude Barrows Bennett, Hugh Benson, Margaret Cavendish, James Fenimore Coope
Length766h 17m
About this audiobook
Spanning utopian speculation, planetary romance, lost-world adventure, cosmic horror, satire, and dystopian prophecy, this capacious volume maps the formative terrain of science fiction. Its more than 140 selections move from imagined voyages and subterranean civilizations to futures of mechanization, social control, ecological peril, and extraterrestrial encounter. Alongside emblematic tales of interplanetary exploration and catastrophic transformation, the set preserves less familiar experiments in speculative geography, evolutionary fantasy, and scientific romance, revealing how heterogeneous the genre has always been. The contributors constitute an extraordinary transatlantic genealogy of speculative writing, joining nineteenth-century innovators with early twentieth-century popular and literary experimenters. Their work emerges from the pressures of imperial expansion, industrial modernity, evolutionary theory, mass media, and debates over gender, class, religion, and political reform. Fictional futures and remote worlds become laboratories for social criticism as well as adventure, while Gothic, realist, comic, and romance traditions continually reshape the possibilities of scientific imagination. Read collectively, these voices chart science fiction's movement from philosophical conjecture toward a distinct modern genre. Ideal for students, scholars, and curious general readers, this boxed set offers an unusually broad archive of the genre's prehistory and classic development. It invites comparison across styles, eras, and national traditions, rewarding readers with both foundational narratives and surprising rediscoveries. The volume's greatest value lies in the dialogue it creates between competing visions of progress, danger, and humanity's place in the cosmos.
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GenreScience Fiction
Length766 hrs 17 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 21, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Greatest Sci-Fi Tales Ever Written
2SF Boxed Set: 140+ Intergalactic Action Adventures, Dystopian Novels & Lost World Classics
3The Great Pioneers of SF
4H. G. Wells
5The Time Machine
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6Chapter I
7Chapter II
8Chapter III
9Chapter IV
10Chapter V
11Chapter VI
12Chapter VII
13Chapter VIII
14Chapter IX
15Chapter X
16Chapter XI
17Chapter XII
18The War of the Worlds
19Book One. The Coming of the Martians
20Chapter One. The Eve of the War
21Chapter Two. The Falling Star
22Chapter Three. On Horsell Common
23Chapter Four. The Cylinder Opens
24Chapter Five. The HeatRay
25Chapter Six. The HeatRay in the Chobham Road
26Chapter Seven. How I Reached Home
27Chapter Eight. Friday Night
28Chapter Nine. The Fighting Begins
29Chapter Ten. In the Storm
30Chapter Eleven. At the Window
31Chapter Twelve. What I Saw of the Destruction
32Chapter Thirteen. How I Fell in with the Curate
33Chapter Fourteen. In London
34Chapter Fifteen. What Had Happened in Surrey
35Chapter Sixteen. The Exodus from London
36Chapter Seventeen. The “Thunder Child”
37Book Two. The Earth under the Martians
38Chapter One. Under Foot
39Chapter Two. What We Saw from the Ruined House
40Chapter Three. The Days of Imprisonment
41Chapter Four. The Death of the Curate
42Chapter Five. The Stillness
43Chapter Six. The Work of Fifteen Days
44Chapter Seven. The Man on Putney Hill
45Chapter Eight. Dead London
46Chapter Nine. Wreckage
47Chapter Ten. The Epilogue
48The Island of Doctor Moreau
49Introduction
50Chapter 1. In the Dinghy of the Lady Vain
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