Science-Fiction & Fantasy

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The Phoenix and the Carpet

E. Nesbit

The Phoenix and the Carpet is a whimsical adventure aimed at younger readers, set in Edwardian England and…

The Story of the Amulet

E. Nesbit

The Story of the Amulet is a whimsical fantasy about four siblings, Cyril, Robert, Anthea and Jane, who…

The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth

H. G. Wells

The work is a speculative science‑fiction tale set in the late‑nineteenth‑century world of academic research.

The Napoleon of Notting Hill

G. K. Chesterton

The novel is a satirical fantasy that begins with a sprawling meditation on humanity’s habit of treating the…

Piper in the Woods

Philip K. Dick

The story opens as a routine military inquiry turns surreal on a newly‑established asteroid outpost.

Time Enough at Last

Lyn Venable

This story is a science‑fiction short piece that follows Henry Bemis, a teller whose greatest wish is simply…

At the Earth's Core

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Burroughs’s At the Earth’s Core is a hybrid of science‑fiction, fantasy adventure and speculative travel, set…

A Strange Story — Complete

Edward Bulwer Lytton

The work is a Victorian romance that sets out to intertwine philosophical speculation with a narrative of…

Anticipations of the reaction of mechanical and scientific progress upon human life and thought

H. G. Wells

The work is a speculative essay that treats the future of technology and society as a subject for systematic…

Voyages to the Moon and the Sun

Cyrano de Bergerac

The work is a 17th‑century French satire that blends speculative science‑fiction with the flamboyant…

A Modern Utopia

H. G. Wells

A Modern Utopia is H. G. Wells’s final foray into speculative social writing, positioned after his earlier…

The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World

Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of

The work is a seventeenth‑century speculative narrative that blends romance, philosophy, and outright…

The Emerald City of Oz

L. Frank Baum

The Emerald City of Oz is a collection of short adventures that expands the familiar Oz universe with fresh…

The Stranger

Gordon R. Dickson

The story opens on a remote, unnamed world in the Buckhorn Cluster, where the mining ship Emerald Girl,…

When the Sleeper Wakes

H. G. Wells

The novel opens with a vivid encounter on a rugged Cornish coast, where the young artist Mr Isbister…

The Light Princess

George MacDonald

The Light Princess is a whimsical fairy‑tale that begins with a king’s petty frustration over his queen’s…

Triplanetary

E. E. Smith

This is a science‑fiction saga that begins with a sweeping cosmological premise: two galaxies pass through…

The Mysterious Island

Jules Verne

Jules Verne’s The Mysterious Island is a science‑fiction adventure that begins with a dramatic, almost…

後西游記

Xuahua Biao

The colour out of space

H. P. Lovecraft

The opening places the tale squarely in the realms of early twentieth‑century science‑fiction horror,…

The Patchwork Girl of Oz

L. Frank Baum

The Patchwork Girl of Oz continues L. Frank Baum’s beloved Oz series with a fresh adventure that begins not…

Vingt mille lieues sous les mers

Jules Verne

Ce roman de Jules Verne s’inscrit dans le genre de la science‑fiction maritime, où l’aventure naît d’un…

The Tin Woodman of Oz A Faithful Story of the Astonishing Adventure Undertaken by the Tin Woodman, assisted by Woot the Wanderer, the Scarecrow of Oz, and Polychrome, the Rainbow's Daughter

L. Frank Baum

The book is a whimsical adventure set in L. Frank Baum’s ever‑expanding Land of Oz, where the Tin Woodman,…