Science-Fiction & Fantasy

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Makers

Cory Doctorow

Makers is a near‑future satirical novel that blends business‑journalism, tech‑culture critique, and…

The Great War in England in 1897

William Le Queux

William Le Queux’s “The Great War in England in 1897” is a speculative military narrative that frames a…

The King of Elfland's Daughter

Lord Dunsany

Lord Dunsany’s The King of Elfland’s Daughter opens in a lyrical, almost incantatory manner, introducing a…

Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume

Voltaire

Voltaire’s Romances offers a sweeping collection of the French author’s short fictional works, rendered into…

Micromegas

Voltaire

Voltaire’s Micromegas is a short, philosophical tale that blends science‑fiction travel with sharp satire.

The shadow over Innsmouth

H. P. Lovecraft

The Shadow over Innsmouth is a horror tale set in a decaying Massachusetts seaport, blending fantasy and…

A Voyage to Arcturus

David Lindsay

The novel is a blend of science‑fiction adventure and psychological exploration, set up as a séance in a…

The Night Land

William Hope Hodgson

The Night Land is a sprawling work of speculative fiction that begins with a lyrical meditation on love,…

With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D. (Together with extracts from the comtemporary magazine in which it appeared)

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kip‑Kipling’s “With the Night Mail” reads as a speculative travelogue set in a future where the…

Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930

Various

Astounding Stories of Super‑Science is a 1930 pulp magazine that gathers a dozen short pieces by a range of…

Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales

H. C. Andersen

Twelve Stories and a Dream

H. G. Wells

The volume is a collection of twelve short stories by H. G.

The Hanging Stranger

Philip K. Dick

The story opens on a weary evening in a small Midwestern town, following Ed Loyce, a forty‑year‑old TV‑shop…

Vathek; An Arabian Tale

William Beckford

William Beckford’s Vathek is an eighteenth‑century Oriental romance that blends fantasy and Gothic elements…

From the Earth to the Moon, Direct in Ninety-Seven Hours and Twenty Minutes: and a Trip Round It

Jules Verne

The First Men in the Moon

H. G. Wells

The novel opens with a reflective, first‑person narrator who, after a string of business failures, retreats…

The Scarlet Plague

Jack London

Jack London’s opening thrusts the reader into a stark, post‑apocalyptic landscape where a crumbling mono‑rail…

Etidorhpa; or, The End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and the Account of a Remarkable Journey

John Uri Lloyd

Etidorhpa presents itself as a hybrid of speculative science, fantasy, and occult intrigue, a product of its…

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

J. M. Barrie

The work is a whimsical fantasy set in the real‑world setting of London’s Kensington Gardens, where the…

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

Edwin Abbott

Flatland is a speculative romance that uses the geometry of a two‑dimensional world to explore ideas about…

Ask a Foolish Question

Robert Sheckley

Robert Sheckley’s Ask a Foolish Question is a collection of speculative short stories that explores the…

The right to read = $b Le droit de lire

Richard Stallman

The piece is a speculative short story that folds science‑fiction tropes into a near‑future cautionary tale…

Travels and Adventures of Little Baron Trump and His Wonderful Dog Bulger

Ingersoll Lockwood

The work is a sprawling juvenile fantasy that blends historical romance with absurd adventure.