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
Length164h 21m
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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.
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GenreScience Fiction
Length164 hrs 21 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 5, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
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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