Science-Fiction & Fantasy

Night of the living dead

George A. Romero

My Shipmate—Columbus

Stephen Marlowe

The novel is a science‑fiction tale that folds a classroom debate about Christopher Columbus into a broader…

Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories

Ralph Adams Cram

Ralph Adams Cram’s Black Spirits and White is a collection of ghost stories that begins with a tangled…

David and the Phoenix

Edward Ormondroyd

The story is a whimsical adventure that blends fantasy with a light‑hearted, juvenile tone.

Star Surgeon

Alan Edward Nourse

The opening places you in a bustling interstellar airport where Dal Timgar, a spindly Garvian medical…

Mene tekel! Eine Entdeckungsreise nach Europa

Arnold von der Passer

Das Werk ist ein utopischer Roman, der in einer fernen Zukunft Afrikas spielt, wo ein sozialistisch geprägter…

Drolls From Shadowland

J. H. Pearce

Drolls From Shadowland is a whimsical, low‑brow fantasy set in the rugged mining districts of Cornwall.

Hypolympia; Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy

Edmund Gosse

Hypolympia is an ironic fantasy that stages the Olympian pantheon on a desolate island, far from the familiar…

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

Edwin Abbott

The work is a speculative narrative that pretends to be the memoirs of a Flatland inhabitant, a…

The Last Man

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The work is a speculative narrative that blends nineteenth‑century travelogue with a vision of a future…

Doctor Jones' Picnic

S. E. Chapman

Doctor Jones' Picnic is a speculative adventure that blends science‑fiction imagination with a quasi‑romantic…

Space Prison

Tom Godwin

Space Prison is a hard‑boiled science‑fiction tale that thrusts its readers into the immediate aftermath of a…

Pagan Passions

Garrett, Randall; Janifer, Laurence M.

Pagan Passions is a science‑fiction novella that thrusts the reader straight into a bizarre, almost…

The Magic Soap Bubble

David Cory

The story is a whimsical fantasy adventure aimed at younger readers, opening with a sudden, magical…

Alaeddin und die Wunderlampe aus Tausend und eine Nacht

Curt Moreck

Der Text ist ein Märchen für Kinder, das die Geschichte des jungen Alaeddin erzählt, eines verwahrlosten…

The Galaxy Primes

E. E. Smith

The Galaxy Primes is a space‑faring adventure that blends science‑fiction speculation with a sharply comic,…

Second Variety

Philip K. Dick

The story opens in a bleak, ash‑strewn battlefield where a lone Russian soldier scrambles up a ruined hill…

Wandl the Invader

Ray Cummings

Wandl the Invader is a mid‑century science‑fiction adventure that opens in the summer of 2070, when a…

The Boy Volunteers with the Submarine Fleet

Kenneth Ward

The novel is a wartime adventure aimed at younger readers, set against the backdrop of World War I naval…

The House of the Wolfings A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark Written in Prose and in Verse

William Morris

The work is a sprawling fantasy epic that opens with a detailed chronicle of a people who have settled beside…

Lucian's True History

of Samosata Lucian

Lucian’s True History is a satirical travel narrative that launches its absurd adventure with a bold…

The Planet Strappers

Raymond Z. Gallun

The Planet Strappers is a mid‑century science‑fiction tale that opens in a small Minnesota hobby shop, where…

Prince Prigio From "His Own Fairy Book"

Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang’s Prince Prigio is a whimsical fairy‑tale framed as the “Own Fairy Book” of a self‑conscious…

Dracula's Guest

Bram Stoker

Dracula’s Guest is a modest volume of short fiction assembled by Bram Stoker’s widow after his death,…