SCIENCE FICTION Ultimate Collection: 140+ Intergalactic Adventures, Dystopian Novels, Lost World Classics & Post-Apocalyptic Stories
Foundations of Speculative FictionBy Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Abraham Merritt, Edgar Wallace, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Edwin A. Abbott, Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson, George MacDonald, Henry Rider Haggard, William Hope Hodgson, H. P. Lovecraft, Edward Bellamy, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, Francis Bacon, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Margaret Cavendish, Jonathan Swift, William Morris, Samuel Butler, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, James Fenimore Coope, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Owen Gregory, Hugh Benson, Fred M. White, Ignatius Donnelly, Ernest Bramah, Arthur Dudley Vinton, Robert Cromie, Anthony Trollope, Cleveland Moffett, Richard Jefferies, Percy Greg, David Lindsay, Edward Everett Hale, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Otis Adelbert Kline, Malcolm Jameson, Garrett P. Serviss, Gertrude Barrows Bennett
Length766h 25m
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SCIENCE FICTION Ultimate Collection gathers more than 140 tales, novels, and speculative visions that map the genre's formative terrain: interplanetary travel, vanished civilizations, scientific overreach, utopian design, social collapse, and the uncanny possibilities of evolution. Moving from Gothic romance and satire to adventure narrative, philosophical fable, imperial lost-world fiction, and proto–space opera, the volume reveals science fiction as a capacious conversation rather than a single mode. Landmark dystopias, lunar voyages, submarine adventures, and post-apocalyptic landscapes stand beside less frequently anthologized experiments in cosmic terror and technological prophecy. Its contributors span several centuries and national traditions, bringing together major figures of Romanticism, Victorian sensation fiction, American Gothic, utopian socialism, Edwardian adventure, and early pulp modernity. Their varied professional and cultural backgrounds—novelists, essayists, satirists, reform-minded thinkers, and popular storytellers—demonstrate how speculative writing absorbed debates about industrialization, colonial expansion, gender, class, empire, and humanity's place in the universe. Collectively, these voices trace the passage from scientific romance to twentieth-century genre fiction. This expansive anthology is especially rewarding for readers seeking both pleasure and perspective. It offers an exceptional opportunity to compare styles, eras, and imagined futures within one volume, while illuminating the intellectual genealogy of modern science fiction. Students, scholars, and curious general readers alike will find a rich archive of narrative invention and critical dialogue.
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GenreScience Fiction
Length766 hrs 25 mins
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Publish dateAug 7, 2018
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Table of contents
1The Jason Croft Trilogy – SF Classics
2SCIENCE FICTION Ultimate Collection: 140+ Intergalactic Adventures, Dystopian Novels, Lost World Classics & Post-Apocalyptic Stories
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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