Science-Fiction & Fantasy

Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner

Ellsworth Douglass

The work is a turn‑of‑the‑century speculative adventure that begins with a newspaper‑style report on the…

The Singing Mouse Stories

Emerson Hough

The work is a whimsical juvenile tale that blends animal fantasy with a reflective, almost lyrical meditation…

Visionen und andere phantastische Erzählungen

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Der Text ist ein fragmentarisch erzähltes, von einer Jagdreise ausgehendes Fantasiedrama, das im ländlichen…

Spacehounds of IPC

E. E. Smith

Spacehounds of IPC is a science‑fiction adventure that launches straight into the bustling launch‑pad of the…

平妖傳

Luo, Guanzhong; Feng, Menglong

Edison's Conquest of Mars

Garrett Putman Serviss

Garrett P. Serviss’s Edison’s Conquest of Mars is an early science‑fiction novel that blends speculative…

R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) A Fantastic Melodrama in Three Acts and an Epilogue

Karel Čapek

R.U.R. is a three‑act melodrama that begins in the bustling central office of Rossum’s Universal Robots, an…

The Status Civilization

Robert Sheckley

The story opens with a terse exchange between a bureaucratic official and a newly arrived prisoner,…

Herland

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The novel is a speculative adventure that begins with a first‑person narrator recalling a lost cache of field…

Adventures in Toyland; What the Marionette Told Molly

Edith King Hall

Adventures in Toyland is a whimsical fantasy aimed at younger readers, set in a bustling toy‑shop where the…

Davy and the Goblin What Followed Reading 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'

Charles E. Carryl

The story opens on a blustery Christmas Eve, where a snow‑storm rattles both city streets and country lanes.

Islands of Space

John W. Campbell, Jr.

Islands of Space is a hard‑science adventure that launches its readers aboard an Earth‑built…

Little Wizard Stories of Oz

L. Frank Baum

Little Wizard Stories of Oz is a collection of short, juvenile fantasies set in L.

Little Brother

Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother is a near‑future thriller that plunges the reader into a San Francisco still…

The Book of Dragons

E. Nesbit

The work is a whimsical short‑story collection aimed at children, centering on the absurd adventures of a…

Med Luftskib til Mars: Fantastisk Fremtidsfortælling

Meyn, Niels; Klingsey, August

Bogen er en tidlig science‑fiction‑fortælling, der følger fire forskere og en ingeniør, mens de debatterer…

Niels Klim's journey under the ground being a narrative of his wonderful descent to the subterranean lands; together with an account of the sensible animals and trees inhabiting the planet Nazar and the firmament.

Ludvig Holberg

This work is an eighteenth‑century satirical voyage narrative by Ludvig Holberg, the leading Danish writer of…

Ting-a-ling

Frank R. Stockton

The work is a fairy‑tale adventure set in an exotic Eastern kingdom, opening with a lush description of a…

鏡花緣

Ruzhen Li

Eight Keys to Eden

Mark Clifton

Mark Clifton’s Eight Keys to Eden is a science‑fiction novella that plunges the reader straight into the…

Space Platform

Murray Leinster

Space Platform is a mid‑century American science‑fiction adventure that opens with a tense, claustrophobic…

The Cat in Grandfather's House

Carl Henry Grabo

The Cat in Grandfather’s House is a whimsical fantasy aimed at young readers, opening with ten‑year‑old…

Rootabaga Stories

Carl Sandburg

Rootabaga Stories is a whimsical collection of American fairy‑tale sketches that begins with the odd,…

Unwise Child

Randall Garrett

The novel opens in a vividly rendered slice of mid‑century Manhattan, where the bustling “Radio Row” of…