
THE FINAL FRONTIER: Sci-Fi Space Boxed Set: Intergalactic Wars, Alien Attacks & Space Adventure Novels (50+ Titles in One Edition)
Classic Tales of Cosmic WonderBy H. G. Wells, Otis Adelbert Kline, Edgar Wallace, Percy Greg, David Lindsay, Edward Everett Hale, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Malcolm Jameson, C. S. Lewis, Jules VerneLength198h 56m
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THE FINAL FRONTIER gathers more than fifty foundational visions of space travel, extraterrestrial encounter, planetary catastrophe, and interstellar conflict. Ranging from speculative romance and scientific adventure to philosophical fantasy, military narrative, and cosmic horror, the collection maps the early literary imagination of the universe as both promise and peril. Voyages to distant worlds, invasions from beyond Earth, and unsettling encounters with altered forms of life appear beside ambitious tales of exploration and survival, revealing the genre's formative diversity. Its contributors include major architects of modern science fiction alongside influential popular storytellers whose work circulated across Victorian romance, Edwardian invasion fiction, pulp magazines, and mid-century speculative writing. Their varied national, cultural, and intellectual backgrounds bring scientific optimism into dialogue with imperial anxiety, religious and metaphysical inquiry, technological wonder, and fears of war. Together, these voices illuminate science fiction's development from nineteenth-century conjecture into a flexible international mode for testing humanity's future. Recommended for students, enthusiasts, and readers seeking a broad historical survey, this boxed set offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare styles, assumptions, and imaginative scales within one volume. Its abundance invites both sustained reading and selective exploration, fostering productive dialogue among narratives that helped define the final frontier.
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GenreScience Fiction
Length198 hrs 56 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 3, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE FINAL FRONTIER: Sci-Fi Space Boxed Set: Intergalactic Wars, Alien Attacks & Space Adventure Novels (50+ Titles in One Edition)
2H. G. Wells
3The War of the Worlds
4Book One. The Coming of the Martians
5Chapter One. The Eve of the War
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6Chapter Two. The Falling Star
7Chapter Three. On Horsell Common
8Chapter Four. The Cylinder Opens
9Chapter Five. The HeatRay
10Chapter Six. The HeatRay in the Chobham Road
11Chapter Seven. How I Reached Home
12Chapter Eight. Friday Night
13Chapter Nine. The Fighting Begins
14Chapter Ten. In the Storm
15Chapter Eleven. At the Window
16Chapter Twelve. What I Saw of the Destruction
17Chapter Thirteen. How I Fell in with the Curate
18Chapter Fourteen. In London
19Chapter Fifteen. What Had Happened in Surrey
20Chapter Sixteen. The Exodus from London
21Chapter Seventeen. The “Thunder Child”
22Book Two. The Earth under the Martians
23Chapter One. Under Foot
24Chapter Two. What We Saw from the Ruined House
25Chapter Three. The Days of Imprisonment
26Chapter Four. The Death of the Curate
27Chapter Five. The Stillness
28Chapter Six. The Work of Fifteen Days
29Chapter Seven. The Man on Putney Hill
30Chapter Eight. Dead London
31Chapter Nine. Wreckage
32Chapter Ten. The Epilogue
33The Shape of Things To Come: Introduction The Dream Book of Dr. Philip Raven
34Book the First Today and Tomorrow: The Age of Frustration Dawns
351. A Chronological Note
362. How the Idea and Hope of the Modern World State First Appeared
373. The Accumulating Disproportions of the Old Order
384. Early Attempts to Understand and Deal with These Disproportions; The Criticisms of Karl Marx and Henry George
395. The Way in Which Competition and Monetary Inefficiency Strained the Old Order
406. The Paradox of Over-Production and Its Relation to War
417. The Great War of 1914-1918
428. The Impulse to Abolish War; The Episode of the Ford Peace Ship
439. The Direct Action of the Armament Industries in Maintaining War Stresses
4410. Versailles: Seed Bed of Disasters
4511. The Impulse to Abolish War: Why the League of Nations Failed to Pacify the World
4612. The Breakdown of “Finance” and Social Morale after Versailles
4713. 1933: “Progress” Comes to a Halt
48Book the Second The Days After Tomorrow: The Age of Frustration
491. The London Conference: the Crowning Failure of the Old Governments; The Spread of Dictatorships and Fascisms
502. The Sloughing of the Old Educational Tradition