Science Fiction

Het Geheimzinnige Eiland De Verlatene

Jules Verne

Dit verhaal, geschreven door Jules Verne, combineert science‑fiction met een avontuurlijke overlevingsroman.

The Status Civilization

Robert Sheckley

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

Islands of Space

John W. Campbell, Jr.

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

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…

Unwise Child

Randall Garrett

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

My Shipmate—Columbus

Stephen Marlowe

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

Star Surgeon

Alan Edward Nourse

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

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…

Space Prison

Tom Godwin

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

The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories

H. G. Wells

The volume is a self‑selected anthology of H. G. Wells’s short fiction, gathered under the auspices of the…

Pagan Passions

Garrett, Randall; Janifer, Laurence M.

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

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 Planet Strappers

Raymond Z. Gallun

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

Ten From Infinity

Paul W. Fairman

Ten From Infinity is a science‑fiction novella that opens on a bustling Manhattan street, where a pedestrian…

The Eyes Have It

Philip K. Dick

The piece is a short, humor‑laden science‑fiction story that opens with a narrator’s accidental discovery of…

Talents, Incorporated

Murray Leinster

Murray Leinster’s Talents, Incorporated is a science‑fiction tale that opens in the smoky heart of a…

Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch

Mary E. Bradley Lane

Mizora: A Prophecy presents itself as a speculative utopian narrative framed by a first‑person account that…

The Game of Rat and Dragon

Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

The piece is a science‑fiction short story that plunges the reader into a future where interstellar travel…

Adaptation

Mack Reynolds

Adaptation is a science‑fiction exploration of humanity’s grand experiment in galactic colonization.

The Best Made Plans

Everett B. Cole

The opening of The Best Made Plans drops the reader into a single, breath‑holding scene that feels more like…

That Sweet Little Old Lady

Garrett, Randall; Janifer, Laurence M.

The story is a mid‑century science‑fiction spy tale that drops the reader straight into a tense FBI briefing.