The Greats of Sci-Fi: H. G Wells Edition
A Landmark Anthology of Victorian Scientific Romance, Lost Worlds, Utopias, and Gothic FuturesBy Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Fenimore Cooper, 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
Length766h 25m
About this audiobook
The Greats of Sci-Fi: H. G. Wells Edition surveys the imaginative foundations of science fiction, bringing together speculative romances, satires, Gothic visions, adventure narratives, social utopias, and cosmic horrors. Across its broad historical span, the volume traces recurring concerns with technological power, evolutionary change, imperial exploration, alternative societies, and humanity's precarious place in the universe. Wells's influential mode of social speculation provides an especially vital point of orientation, while the collection's excursions into time travel, lost worlds, invented futures, and uncanny science reveal the genre's rich formal diversity. Its contributors form an extraordinary transnational and intergenerational constellation, from early modern philosophical fabulists and nineteenth-century pioneers to major writers of adventure, detective fiction, realism, fantasy, and pulp-era scientific romance. Their varied careers illuminate science fiction's emergence from Enlightenment satire, Gothic fiction, imperial romance, utopian thought, and popular periodical culture. Together, these voices demonstrate that speculative literature has long been a forum for testing social assumptions and imagining both progress and catastrophe. Recommended for students, scholars, and curious general readers, this anthology offers an unusually capacious introduction to the genre's formative traditions. It invites readers to compare distinct styles and ideological horizons within one volume, fostering a rewarding dialogue between scientific wonder, political critique, and literary invention.
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GenreScience Fiction
Length766 hrs 25 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 21, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Odd John (Annotated)
2The Greats of Sci-Fi: H. G Wells Edition
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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