The Greatest Sci-Fi Classics
Foundational Tales of Time Travel, Artificial Life, Lost Worlds, Utopias, and Cosmic TerrorBy Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Mary Shelley, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Edwin A. Abbott, Jack London, Edward Bellamy, Robert Louis Stevenson, George MacDonald, H. Rider Haggard, William Hope Hodgson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Hugh Benson, David Lindsay, Abraham Merritt
Length179h 32m
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The Greatest Sci-Fi Classics charts the formative breadth of speculative fiction, assembling Gothic terror, scientific romance, utopian and dystopian satire, imperial adventure, cosmic fantasy, and tales of technological transformation. Across narratives of artificial life, temporal travel, invisible bodies, subterranean realms, planetary encounters, and social futures, the volume demonstrates how science fiction developed as both imaginative experiment and cultural critique. Its landmark visions of altered humanity and unfamiliar worlds retain their power precisely because they join narrative excitement to searching questions about knowledge, progress, empire, class, and survival. The collection brings together writers central to the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century emergence of modern science fiction, alongside figures whose work crosses detective fiction, children's fantasy, adventure literature, Gothic fiction, and social reform writing. These varied backgrounds illuminate the genre's composite origins: it grew from Romantic anxieties, Victorian scientific debate, imperial expansion, industrial modernity, and reformist speculation. Collectively, these voices show that early science fiction was never a narrow tradition, but a capacious field in which literary invention could test the moral and political consequences of modernity. Ideal for students, longtime readers, and newcomers alike, this anthology offers an unusually rich encounter with the genre's foundational modes. Readers will find both historical perspective and enduring imaginative pleasure, while the proximity of these diverse works encourages revealing dialogue among their competing futures, fears, and hopes.
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GenreScience Fiction
Length179 hrs 32 mins
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Publish dateAug 5, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Gertrude Stein - Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Essays & Memoirs (Annotated)
2Jules Verne
3Journey to the Center of the Earth
4Preface
5Chapter I. The Professor And His Family
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6Chapter II. A Mystery To Be Solved At Any Price
7Chapter III. The Runic Writing Exercises The Professor
8Chapter IV. The Enemy To Be Starved Into Submission
9Chapter V. Famine, Then Victory, Followed By Dismay
10Chapter VI. Exciting Discussions About An Unparalleled Enterprise
11Chapter VII. A Woman’s Courage
12Chapter VIII. Serious Preparations For Vertical Descent
13Chapter IX. Iceland! But What Next?
14Chapter X. Interesting Conversations With Icelandic Savants
15Chapter XI. A Guide Found To The Centre Of The Earth
16Chapter XII. A Barren Land
17Chapter XIII. Hospitality Under The Arctic Circle
18Chapter XIV. But Arctics Can Be Inhospitable, Too
19Chapter XV. Snæfell At Last
20Chapter XVI. Boldly Down The Crater
21Chapter XVII. Vertical Descent
22Chapter XVIII. The Wonders Of Terrestrial Depths
23Chapter XIX. Geological Studies In Situ
24Chapter XX. The First Signs Of Distress
25Chapter XXI. Compassion Fuses The Professor’s Heart
26Chapter XXII. Total Failure Of Water
27Chapter XXIII. Water Discovered
28Chapter XXIV. Well Said, Old Mole! Canst Thou Work I’ The Ground So Fast?
29Chapter XXV. De Profundis
30Chapter XXVI. The Worst Peril Of All
31Chapter XXVII. Lost In The Bowels Of The Earth
32Chapter XXVIII. The Rescue In The Whispering Gallery
33Chapter XXIX. Thalatta! Thalatta!
34Chapter XXX. A New Mare Internum
35Chapter XXXI. Preparations For A Voyage Of Discovery
36Chapter XXXII. Wonders Of The Deep
37Chapter XXXIII. A Battle Of Monsters
38Chapter XXXIV. The Great Geyser
39Chapter XXXV. An Electric Storm
40Chapter XXXVI. Calm Philosophic Discussions
41Chapter XXXVII. The Liedenbrock Museum Of Geology
42Chapter XXXVIII. The Professor In His Chair Again
43Chapter XXXIX. Forest Scenery Illuminated By Eletricity
44Chapter XL. Preparations For Blasting A Passage To The Centre Of The Earth
45Chapter XLI. The Great Explosion And The Rush Down Below
46Chapter XLII. Headlong Speed Upward Through The Horrors Of Darkness
47Chapter XLIII. Shot Out Of A Volcano At Last!
48Chapter XLIV. Sunny Lands In The Blue Mediterranean
49Chapter XLV. All’s Well That Ends Well
50Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
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